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Video
Video (color, sound)
3840 × 2160 pixels
4 minutes 1 secondIn "A Picture Can't Take Me," Cibelle Cavalli Bastos writes a poem about the impossibility of capturing subjectivity in a portrait, then passes it to GPT2, an AI pre-trained language model, to complete it for them. Both the images in the video and the still image are the output of generative portraiture using StyleGAN2. The data set consists of Google search pictures of Cibelle Cavalli Bastos when they were known as a cis woman singer, as well as selfies taken while transitioning to non-binary and aging, from a personal archive spanning 20 years and their Instagram (@aevtarperform).