Showing posts with label identity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label identity. Show all posts
Jul 17, 2018
Yesssss, a new Max Cooper
Max Cooper 'Identity', from the album about our brains, called 'One Hundred Billion Sparks', which you can pre-order over here.
Mar 13, 2017
Feb 10, 2011
Face To Facebook
Stealing 1 million Facebook profiles, filtering them with face-recognition software, and then, posting them on a custom-made dating website, Lovely Faces, sorted by their facial expressions characteristics.
That's what artists Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico did.
"Facebook, an endlessly cool place for so many people, becomes at the same time a goldmine for identity theft and dating - unfortunately, without the user's control. But that's the very nature of Facebook and social media in general. If we start to play with the concepts of identity theft and dating, we should be able to unveil how fragile a virtual identity given to a proprietary platform can be. And how fragile enormous capitalization based on exploiting social systems can be. And it'll eventually mutate, from a plausible translation of real identities into virtual management, to something just for fun, with no assumed guarantee of trust, crumbling the whole market evaluation hysteria that surrounds the crowded, and much hyped, online social platforms."
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That's what artists Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico did.
"Facebook, an endlessly cool place for so many people, becomes at the same time a goldmine for identity theft and dating - unfortunately, without the user's control. But that's the very nature of Facebook and social media in general. If we start to play with the concepts of identity theft and dating, we should be able to unveil how fragile a virtual identity given to a proprietary platform can be. And how fragile enormous capitalization based on exploiting social systems can be. And it'll eventually mutate, from a plausible translation of real identities into virtual management, to something just for fun, with no assumed guarantee of trust, crumbling the whole market evaluation hysteria that surrounds the crowded, and much hyped, online social platforms."
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Feb 7, 2011
Julian Wolkenstein - Echoism
""Echoism" plays with the notion of your own identity. What do you look like? What are the things that make you look like you - your identifying features? If you are made symmetrical, do you consider yourself more beautiful, less so, or is it just weird? Or is it you at all? Do you have a best side? What is to be said of left and right brain dominance?"
"The process is a face-to-camera portrait, the image is split into a left and a right section, then one side is horizontally flipped.
These images are recombined to create two separate and symmetrical identities of the subject.
Feel free to upload your image more than once, as it is a web cam or iphone thing it has a sense of immediacy, a moment captured - so perhaps you feel one way in front of a webcam taping away on work, and another way out at night in a bar with an iphone."
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"The process is a face-to-camera portrait, the image is split into a left and a right section, then one side is horizontally flipped.
These images are recombined to create two separate and symmetrical identities of the subject.
Feel free to upload your image more than once, as it is a web cam or iphone thing it has a sense of immediacy, a moment captured - so perhaps you feel one way in front of a webcam taping away on work, and another way out at night in a bar with an iphone."
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Jan 29, 2011
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