With my new artproject Absolute Power I analyse and reflect about power structures and the mechanics behind them. An important method to establish power is to rewrite history, to change the narration. For the piece Rewriting History: I keep Forgetting Faces I created a software which chooses randomly pictures from Wikipedia and erases with the help of Machine Learning the people in it. The best results I paint in oil. Retouching photos is as old as photography itself but here it is reflected about what is possible completely automatic. How can machines rewrite history?
http://absolute-power.org/rewritingFaces.php
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