There is No Average, No Normal, No quintessential
One Set Of Features, Four Different Facial Volumes, Eight Skin Tones
Matt Mitchell, 2019
Matt Mitchell, 2019
Picture humanity. Decide on a face. Decide on three. Decide on twelve.
What sex? What race? What age?
Every time you see a fiction, a mannequin, a computer generated Character. Every time facial measurements are digitized and recognized the data is translated into some framework. Some idea of average.
To expand your conception of the face is to run counter to the efficiencies and biases escalating in our hive mind. To try to imagine faces of the other is awkward and illuminates preconceptions and failures of ability. But it is only through understanding the distortions of the lens through which we look that we can supersede our vision.
Two hundred years of attempts towards greater human rights demands that we achieve empathy and knowledge of humanity in some total. How to transcend the biases of vision while attempting to conceive of us?
Measurements and suppositions become age, race, sex, weight, and health the second an algorithm is written, or a line is drawn.
What sex? What race? What age?
Every time you see a fiction, a mannequin, a computer generated Character. Every time facial measurements are digitized and recognized the data is translated into some framework. Some idea of average.
To expand your conception of the face is to run counter to the efficiencies and biases escalating in our hive mind. To try to imagine faces of the other is awkward and illuminates preconceptions and failures of ability. But it is only through understanding the distortions of the lens through which we look that we can supersede our vision.
Two hundred years of attempts towards greater human rights demands that we achieve empathy and knowledge of humanity in some total. How to transcend the biases of vision while attempting to conceive of us?
Measurements and suppositions become age, race, sex, weight, and health the second an algorithm is written, or a line is drawn.
One Face, Mirrored
Matt Mitchell, 2019
Matt Mitchell, 2019
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