11/11/2023 0 Comments My heritage deep nostalgia similar![]() ![]() To my delight, the Romantic poet was soon blowing kisses at me through the screen. Riding my techno-high, I created an account and uploaded paintings of Keats. Just two days after Keats’s bicentennial, the Israeli genealogy site MyHeritage released Deep Nostalgia, a technology developed by Israeli security company D-ID (De-Identification) as part of their “reenactment suite,” that animates human faces in photographs, making them look around, nod, smile, wink, and even dance. Filled with a mixture of wonder and enthusiasm for future improvement of this developing technology (it still bore the geodesic surfaces of many digital likenesses built from scratch), I was mostly warmed by the feeling of collective global appreciation for a poet none of us had met, as well as the potential to revivify him for students and the public. Somewhat dejected, I returned to my flat instead to watch a Zoom celebration that debuted the Institute for Digital Archaeology’s reconstruction of the poet, based on contemporary images and masks, that could gesture and recite his poems, accent and all. ![]() When I arrived at the long white house in Hampstead, however, there were few signs of the momentous anniversary because of the pandemic. On February 23, the bicentennial of Romantic poet John Keats’s death, I decided to walk to his London home. ALTHOUGH 2021 CONTINUES to be a year of unbearable deaths, it’s also a year of uncanny resurrections. ![]()
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