The Normalizing Machine (Classifying Social Normalcy)

Brief description

The users body is photographed then in 5 iterations the user is asked to classify from a pair of  photographs (of earlier users)  which person is more normal. This with the intention to training the machine to recognize what is normal. In the last pair of images one of the images is of the user, hence one needs to compare ones own normality to previous visitors. Thereafter the image is cropped and only the image of the face is moved to a second wall. This mug-shot is then further tiled to eyes, mouth nose etc. and matched into historical categories used to define tendencies for conducting crimes and defining race.

Work that the situation appears in

Aesthetic characteristics
Machine P.O.V
Not machine P.O.V.
Notes
Linda:
How does the machine vision function in a larger (societal/institutional/interpersonal) context
Is this now facial recognition in the presented context: Would be Oppressing and Predicting
But if we just consider the machine vision in the artwork in it self it would be: Informing/illustrating/demonstrating

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