❤️‍🔥We are 5 days away from releasing the UNPROTECTED NFT where a portion of the proceeds with goto support reproductive justice organizations. Today we are honored to introduce a 3D animation by @carriechen01 which is featured in the current virtual exhibition. Carrie Chen Temporal Portrait: Carrie, 2022 3D animation with audio TRT: 1 min 17 sec loop Temporal Portrait: Carrie is simultaneously a group portrait and a self-portrait. Using GAN technology and referencing ancestral records, Chen simulates stages of aging and imagines the moment when transgenerational versions of her 3D selves gather in spacetime. Their collective presence is a meditation on nonlinear concepts of time and the artist's existence as a Chinese American woman. It is also a celebration of resiliency and life. Together, the 24 female figures occupy a long stretch of space. They breathe, blink, and hold their gaze with the viewer as a confrontational gesture responding to the marginalization of women and as a subversive stance on the male-dominated genre of group portraiture. Carrie Chen is a media artist working with simulation, projection and virtual reality. Drawing from a background in Psychology and Art History, she takes a phenomenological approach to investigating sublime experiences, portraiture and memory. Chen holds an MFA from UCLA Design Media Arts and is researching artificial faces in the age of social media and AI. Chen grew up between New York and Shanghai, and currently lives in Los Angeles. UNPROTECTED is an urgent and powerful exhibition as protest. #epochgallery #unprotected #carriechen #reproductivejustice #abortionfunds #contemporaryart #internetart #vr #virtualgallery #virtualart #artandtech #immersive #ecological #equitable #sustainable #algorand