Very interesting - do you have a link to the application? How does it work?
On 5 November 2015 at 11:08, furtherfield <furtherfiel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Recognised Faces by Kristoffer Ørum > > #google #bot #faces #search #famous #generative > > http://recognisedfaces.tumblr.com/ > > Recognised Faces is an internet application that generates a daily image > of a face from images found via google’s lists of top search terms. Facial > features in the found images are identified, using facial recognition > technologies usually reserved for mass surveillance, before being combined > into an image of a new face. After being generated these faces are used as > the personal avatar of Kristoffer Ørum on his website, on various social > networks and anywhere else his image might be indexed and scanned for > facial features by intelligence agencies, commercial agents or other > interested parties. > > By constructing new faces from parts of the most looked upon images on the > internet Recognised Faces creates a snapshot of the flow of data collection > and facial recognition that happens daily on the internet, thus utilising > facial recognition to generate phantom faces that reflect how computers > perceive us as vaguely recognisable patterns in an ocean of data. When > these phantom images are fed back into the internet, they may help to > destabilise the NSA’s or google’s images of who Kristoffer Ørum is ever so > slightly. > > The glitchy faces that emerge from the computer’s dispassionate gaze > clearly differ from how faces appear to a more human gaze. They may appear > somewhat monstrous and weird, but for the most part they remain strangely > reminiscent of the beauty ideals that dominate mainstream media as well as > most of the internet. What to human eyes might appear to be errors and > distortions reveals traces of the statistical mode of perception that is > really at work here - illustrating shortcomings of much reviled > surveillance technology while providing us with a mechanical mode of > observation that just might reveal things about our species that our own > perception is unable to show us. > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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