YOUR FACE HERE
In 1890, French police officer Alphonse Bertillon developed an identification method based on physical measurements. It was the first scientific system used to identify criminals. It also set the standard for photographic identification and laid the foundation for modern surveillance. Since then, surveillance and control mechanisms have become invisible.
The one-child policy pursued by China for over three decades can be seen as the government’s extreme control over its citizens. As a result, it is estimated that there have been about 13 million undocumented people born as a second child. Paradoxically, the extreme control created groups of people outside of government control.
In December 2018, American graphics technology company NVIDIA published an extensive database of human faces generated by artificial intelligence. Flickr-Faces-HQ (FFHQ) contains 70,000 high-quality images. While a large number of people are forced to live as faceless beings, artificial intelligence has learned to create believable facial images of people who do not really exist.
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Chinese calendar card, year 1982
Indentityless, 2019
Faceresistance, 2019
Including you / excluding you, 2019
Nine signaletic instructions, 2019
Performance piece after Alphonse Bertillon's Identification anthropométrique 1893.
Capturing your life as information, 2019
Measuring machines, 2019
No one's face here, 2019
Image source: Flickr-Faces-HQ Dataset / NVIDIA
The average human, 2019
Collective body, 2019
The second self, 2019
No one's face here, 2019
Image source: Flickr-Faces-HQ Dataset / NVIDIA
Normalis, 2019
Problematizing your freedom, 2019
The work was made possible with the support of the Finnish Cultural Foundation and the Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
