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Within the current technological context, the face sits at the threshold of the shrinking between molar and molecular – unique and singular (molecular), and yet evilly datafied by Big Data infrastructure (molar) towards the specific collection of biometric and affective data. On the one hand, the face stands as a synecdoche for an embodied notion of Point of View (POV). On the other hand, it turns into an algorithmic artefact generated via a specific form of AI called GANs: from a data-set of real human faces, GANs are capable of creating unique faces not belonging to any humans and yet looking extremely realistic. Do these algorithmic faces help enforcing a new form of POV-opticon arranged around algorithmic POV? How, instead, DoppelGANgers could possibly take advantage of the dividual (Deleuze, 1992) nature of algorithmic POVs by putting the dividual itself at work against technology for facial recognition?
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Abstract: With new technological artistic tools that allow us to author 3D computer generated faces that can be as real or as abstract or as iconified as we choose, what aesthetic and cultural communication language do we elicit? Is it the historically rich language of the fine art portrait? the abstracted artifact of the human face? What happens when this portrait animates, conveying lifelike human facial emotion? does it cease to be a portrait and instead moves into the realm of embodied face? when it begins to emote and feel and possibly ...
Frankenstein Reanimated: Creation and Technology in the 21st Century, Marc Garrett and Yiannis Colakides (Eds.), Torque Editions in collaboration with Furtherfield and NeMe Arts Centre
On the Basis of Face: The Politics and Practices of Biometric Art2022 •
The Aesthetics And Politics Of The Online Self
Algorithmic Facial Image (AFI), Datafication and Truth Value2021 •
This is a chapter part of a collective book titled "The Aesthetics And Politics Of The Online Self - A Savage Journey into the Heart of Digital Cultures" edited by Donatella Della Ratta, Geert Lovink, Teresa Numerico, Peter Sarram, published by Palgrave MacMillan. The chapter approaches the face as one of the most relevant and controversial bio-techno-political battlefields. Specifically, it tries to unfold the implications of the evolving processes of ‘machinization’ of the face related to the development of a number of tracking technologies that are nowadays reaching the mainstream public – from iPhone X unlocking by recognizing the face of its owner, to Mastercard technology allowing payment by tracking users’ faces, to apps such as MSQRD and Face Stealer which allow users to modify their facial traits by assuming the ones of somebody else. If bio-tracking technologies are based on the idea that one’s face is unique and not replicable, the amount of entertaining face-tweaking apps available on the market seems to suggest exactly the opposite – face is trackable, its features tweakable, and its uniqueness hackable. Thus, the face turns into the site where contradictory regimes of truth coexist and feed each other in a form that keeps an appearance of immediacy while hiding layers of algorithmic complexity. This new regime of visibility related to the face brings along a paradoxical regime of truth. But how does this new regime of truth relate to processes of ‘datification’ and value extraction? The chapter argues that from a hermeneutic perspective the art of circulationism and data extraction seems to lie in this ambivalence: the more “real” (or better “gore”) and unfiltered an image/information looks the more its networking value grows, the more a number of extractive practices are implemented behind its surface – or right on it, such as in the case of face tracking technologies.
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Machine Generated ‘Portraits’ as Impersonal Gestures2020 •
This paper considers the Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) renderings from the website “This Person Does Not Exist” (TPDNE), published in early 2019, which are high resolution images that are often indistinguishable from actual photographs. While learning algorithms are widely critiqued for amplifying bias and hierarchy within already biased data sets, the learning algorithm that generates the TPDNE images proposes an alternative potential. The TPDNE image makes an opening to experience the co-composition of personhood and photographic media. What is at play in the TPDNE image is not the replacement of a human intelligence for an artificial one, but a reconstitution of the photographic portrait as a spacetime of generative encounter. This encounter both exposes and dampens the way the photographic image is enmeshed in subjective affects and agencies aligned with a human-centered concept of personhood, capture and extraction. In this paper, the TPDNE portrait is figured as a gestural opening to problematize such agencies as they are reconfigured in computational spacetime. The TPDNE image performs the possibility of a sense transformation that allows for imagining new and heterogeneously co-constituted subjectivities that traverse registers of representation, technology and corporeality.
Big Data & Society
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Fixing Being with Likeness: Facial Recognition as the Stage for Global Per-Formance2018 •
This contribution uses a phenomenological and psychoanalytic framework to rethink the porous boundaries between being and likeness. I move from a Surrealist advertising pamphlet produced in 1919 to the facial surgery techniques of 2018, contextualizing theories of the dyadic relationship between text and reader (Iser) with practices of image-solicitation and digital intimacy on the Internet. In unpacking self-surveillance techniques and state-run biometric technologies, this paper examines how our use of faces informs the ways our faces are used against us. Through analyzing how the performance of fantasy and the realization of authorship are imbricated through images of humankind, I research new developments in Augmented Reality avatars, linking the language of the face (Lévinas) as a staging ground for potential empathy and conversely, systematic exclusion. In tracing the data double while looking at the biopolitical function of social media, this paper considers how our images of humankind fix our embodied nature while fixing others in place.
International Conference Semiosis in Communication – Culture, Communication, and Social Change National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania (SNSPA) Bucharest, 4-6 June, 2020
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In the recent years, face detection technologies have been widely used by artists to create digital art. Face detection provides new forms of interaction, and allows digital artefacts to detect the presence of human beings, through video capture and facial detection, in real-time. In this paper we explore the algorithm proposed by Paul Viola and Michael Jones, presented in 2001, in order to generate imagined faces from visual randomness.
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