Abstract photographic compositions composed by images from Facebook friend suggestion albums for my personal account, blended into single pictures. Using custom made software, each original image is stacked on top of each other, and different sets for different human body parts are condensed into separate pictures vibrating with their own emotional impression.
Each final image captures the logic of human part detection algorithms but also fuses it with a distant, shadow view of digital body part representations of people "You May Know", as selected by another set of Facebook algorithms running on your shadow-profile interactions. All those uncanny recommendations are the shadows that follow us as we move around inside the digital space, casted by the light of constant surveillance of our network activity.
The digital images were created by bulk downloading 9000 images downloaded from Facebook friend suggestion albums for my personal account. All images were then stacked using custom made software to process their mean color value per pixel, and increase the dynamic range of colors retaining the highest of their original detailed variety. They were also centered and rescaled at the same size of different human body parts, as recognized by feature detection trained neural networks.
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People You May Know
Authored by
Anestis Anestis
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Each final image captures the logic of human part detection algorithms but also fuses it with a distant, shadow view of digital body part representations of people "You May Know", as selected by another set of Facebook algorithms running on your shadow-profile interactions. All those uncanny recommendations are the shadows that follow us as we move around inside the digital space, casted by the light of constant surveillance of our network activity.
The digital images were created by bulk downloading 9000 images downloaded from Facebook friend suggestion albums for my personal account. All images were then stacked using custom made software to process their mean color value per pixel, and increase the dynamic range of colors retaining the highest of their original detailed variety. They were also centered and rescaled at the same size of different human body parts, as recognized by feature detection trained neural networks.
CLICK TO ENTER ->
People You May Know
Authored by
Anestis Anestis
