Portfolio OscarHr ©2014
CARS. Playing with dreams. 2013-2014 Is a photographic project, a series of 7 prints each about 110x80cm, displaying an illusion through landscape and cars - an amiable game between perspective and deep of field. The individual photos show a car in a picturesque landscape. Approaching the pictures it becomes obvious that something does not match. Being close, it is evident that the car is only a toy photographed from a particular angle in a real landscape. These pictures may remind of the passion of a child playing with cars on the one hand and on the other of symbols of status in the world of the grownups. In this ensemble, the pictures may become trophies of a utopic journey souvenirs in themselves of cultural and constructed elements. For example, Hot Wheels-an American dream- the landscape of Tenerife in the background, and the most powerful machine as a toy, produced in Malaysia, in the foreground or, Siku, toys as symbol of the strength of German industry, but this time produced in China.
Mercedes SLS AMG, Elba Dresden. 2014
SELFIE360 Series. 2013-2014 SELFIE360 is a selfportrait serie of videos in a Youtube playlist. Each video shows the artist turning on the spot in a circle whereby the focus is on his face and the background becomes blurred. The original shot of about 30 seconds is slowed down 8 times and stabilized on youtube. Therefore each video is about 2-3 minutes. The idea behind SELFIE360 derives from observing the speed of information and the fascination of the young generation of taking self-portraits with their smartphone to any occasion and uploading them directly to social websites. Therefore, the series deals not only with a sort of narcissistic behavior but also with the wish to share personal moments of any kind as well as of taking time for perception. The blurred background only gives a clue to the mood, season and setting but it does not allow the viewer any closer conclusion.
Autorretrato IV. 2013 http://youtu.be/9xUbZeHdScU
256 secs.
Autorretrato VIII. 2013 http://youtu.be/LtlW5dZeswg
220 secs.
Autorretrato VII. 2013 http://youtu.be/fJ6ylBgvZsY
227 secs.
Youtube playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9E1reM4p2NHRPqKk5vduZLEe3oN4Yvj5
FLASHLIGHTPORTRAIT Series. 2012 It is a digital photography project. Portraits in 46� LCD screens where the light of the flash overexpose and erase the face of the person on the resultant jpg. The shot is spontaneous, sometimes unexpected and the effect of the flash doesn’t allow us to see the complete facial features. Faces that we could just rebuild in our memory. Characters described by the environment and the not erased details because of the excess of light. The serie shows the people known in a journey. Meetings in publics areas or private events, but always in a friendly environment. Pictures that could belong to the imaginary of Facebook.
PHOTOBOOTH series. 2012-2013. Photobooth series. Is a selfportrait photgraphic work on Analogic Photobooths during Summer 2012 and winter 2013 in Berlin and Dresden, Germany. 4x20 cm strips. Chemical development.
LEDLAMPPORTRAIT 2012
Series.
Is a multimedia Installation that creates an specific portrait picture with a light effect that erases your face. A workstation with free Photobooth sofware invites the visitors to sit, make a selfportrait on the 4 shots classic format and share it. A ledlight on top of the laptop produces an overexposure that erases the face of the user, being unable to recognize your identity by a biometrical software for face detection. The site on facebook propose actions about the identity an privacy of the users.
LEDLIGHTPORTRAIT Series. 2012 Digital photography and social network work. Facebook’s comunity: Photoautoretrato. The users are invited to produce their own portraits hiding their identity usind a ledlight app for smartphones. Join the facebook comunity: https://www.facebook.com/Photoautoretrato
Photoautoretrato Top 10 best ideas 2013. ULL, University contest. Spain.
Photoautoretrato, 2013. Photobooth prototype and social network proposal.
Fact: The EU forbids facebook the use of facial recognition software on September 2012, but it’s still active. The booth post the portraits on facebook. The facial recognition software can’t identify any face on the pictures.
Photoautoretrato, 2013. Explanatory video’s frame http://youtu.be/NBQgijgYgOE
LOG ME IN. 2014 Log me in is an installation using photos and online conference rooms. Two lines of work set up the proposal. A selection of “Screenshot portraits” and “Empty Rooms” is printed and exposed in a classical manner. Nearby is a multimedia installation with a computer and a webcam connected to the internet. On the one hand, the cam records the exhibition and its visitors and on the other hand, I schedule online and communication time with myself and other artists. This allows the visitor to get into a direct interaction. The cam is at the end the producer of online content which is streamed directly to youtube during the running time of the exhibition. The main interest of LOG ME IN is to transform the natural longing for communication and staying in touch into an artistic behavior. It focuses both on the internet as a means of communication and being online as well as on the new kind of aesthetics deriving from it.
Teaser: http://youtu.be/wUQ4CImGsi4
Artist’s conversations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLrzc5CVyd8&feature=share&t=1h46m8s
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