Mismanaged verification of the face by colour
Face as verification/identification of control and power. Facial recognition is used everywhere, especially in China to exercise control and power. Such as the Chinese camera system Hikvision with which the Uyghurs are oppressed. Because of the media reports about facial recognition and control, I decided to make a number of works with the structure of facial recognition. Facial recognition systems measure the proportions in the faces. The software does not see the face as a photo but as a collection of points and lines. The face is thus reduced to a graphic structure. I used this facial recognition graphic structure for the faces of passers-by that I had photographed on the street with permission. I painted the lines of the facial recognition structure on the photo with acrylic ink. After this I processed these lines on the face into areas of color that form an image unit with the face.
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2023 — ARTTRA (Amsterdam) — De vele gezichten van Willy Looyen