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6/25 — Week 6 — Image/Face averaging/compositing (Nancy Burson/Jason Salavon) #6

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Reading recap

Art and Technology, a Panacea that failed

Artist: Nancy Burson

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a system for seeing words/phrases in 3 diff directions simultaneously:

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"patent pending" thinks about patents a lot

animorphs

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problematic aspect of her work:

aging machine:

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human race machine

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"its artificiality revealsnothing about how people live their lives" in order to create these images it requires stereotyping

eugenecists did composites before, "average criminal face". dark side to face averaging

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related to ML biases today

Jason Salavon

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Data portraits, image averaging/stats to tell diff stories

The Simpsons averaged

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Rembrandt averaged

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Graduation photos

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Every frame of Titanic

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Data has an essence that always come thru no matter how much you transform it. It has a core

Past friend/student work

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GTA5 (Claire H)

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Interactive work, averaging all the photos of people who go up to it

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https://www.alifibrahim.com/copy-of-you-are-not-who-you-think-i

Pareidolia (humans seeing faces in stuff)

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Take things that look like faces and average them (run thru face detection algo and align and average) you create this ghost

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Research

https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Nancy-Burson--A2nbdC6UErtLUcgN72D4a4YmAg-0Y9tEB5HBSrDjXto4G9G8 https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Jason-Salavon-TCojb9CiFu1v8eVZU2nxh

Technical notes

  1. face detection
  2. averaging/normalize/rotate/scale/align (e.g. align so eyes are always in the same point)

https://www.reddit.com/r/ImageStabilization/