Randi Matushevitz
United States
Where do you locate yourself in relation to the systems you work with?
I am the director and a collaborator when I am using AI. I direct and ai takes the work to unknown spaces, sometimes inspiring and often frustrating. The technology is not a mind reader. The collaboration is a point of character creation, that I will then animate, and further digitize in a vast variety of apps, to establish the site and setting. The uncanny environment that holds space for the emotive narratives that I am communicating. It is me and the technology in a dance of emotive content.
Where are you heading, and what is pulling you there?
My desire is to create visual experiences that can be seen in an immersive setting as well as on screens of all sizes, including personal devices. I am pushed by the desire to depict a breath of human emotions to discuss what is human in an alternative place that humans are always interacting with. I am creating a sense of human connection and empathy via the unreal being made real. I consider this a form of contemporary portraiture.
How would you describe the space your practice is currently unfolding in?
Uncanny creations, or digital muses as I like to call them, are a mirror. They speak human when humans can barely speak to eachother. These characters and images live in as reflection and often and expression of the deepest workings of the individual mind. The work unfolds in a desire to communicate, to embrace individuality while acknowledging the need to be seen.
Artist Statement
Portraiture, for me, is a deep act of connection—an exploration of how we see ourselves, how we change, and how we want to be seen. This work asks: What has happened to you, to me. It is a journey through image-making toward understanding and redefinition, with the hope of reaching a shared, expansive sense of humanity, self and state of being. My goal for the work is a catharsis of sorts, creating a space that offers the of emotional vibrations a somatic calming release.
