The Human Use of the Human Face

[thesingingcanary]

🤗 By @gestalten⁣. ⁣ Eternal gratitude to @Gestalten & @dennis_busch_collage for their long time support “Influenced by Constructivism, the abstract art movement of the early 20th-century, Matthieu Bourel’s experimental portraits distort reality. His fractal-like sense of repetition, which has become a signature, is a way to represent realism beyond the flat single picture. Swipe for more examples of his dynamic and often hypnotic work. Interested in the power of collage and its impact on contemporary art? Our title ‘The Age of Collage 3’ showcases a new crop of creative vanguards advancing the medium’s possibilities, piece-by-piece.” ⠀ ⁠ You can still grab your copy of the book at gestalten.com ^^ #theageofcollage #Gestalten #collage #matthieubourel #art #photography #portrait #cutandpaste #abstract #abstractart #ekdojo https://www.instagram.com/p/COVom7EhiBj/?igshid=11dk819w1czoq

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Openminded (2021) +

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Mask & Souls (2021)

Record cover for Denovali records, inspired by the Russion novel ’Eugene Onegin’ by Alexander Pushkin. Lp Out in 2022

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DIY Facial Recognition for Porn Is a Dystopian Disaster

Someone is making dubious claims to have built a program for detecting faces in porn and cross-referencing against social media, with 100,000 identified so far.

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How much can we infer about a person's looks from the way they speak? In this paper, we study the task of reconstructing a facial image of a person from a short audio recording of that person speaking.

[karenanndonnachie]

This AI can generate entire bodies: none of these people actually exist - Create, Discover and Share Awesome GIFs on Gfycat

Watch This AI can generate entire bodies: none of these people actually exist GIF by @yuliban on Gfycat. Discover more artificial intelligence, media synthesis, people & blogs GIFs on Gfycat

‘Lookbook’ models will be joining the unemployment line…

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Shinseungback Kimyonghun Stone, 2017. 

[Stone, 2017, 64 water sensors, 64 solenoids, wooden panels, arduino, computer, custom software, speakers, screen and projector, Variable dimensions]

A stone on a shore of the volcanic island, Ulleungdo. Water sensors are installed and wave data is collected. The structure here recreates the wave breaking on the stone. Come in, and become a stone.

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Nonfacial Portrait from Shinseungback Kimyonghun

http://ssbkyh.com/works/nonfacial_portrait/

Painters were invited to make a portrait of a person, in which a computer, using various face-detection algorithms, would not be able to ‘see’ a face.

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https://pudding.cool/2017/03/film-dialogue/

Hanah Anderson & Matt Daniel’s in-depth analysis of dialogue shared by gender in blockbuster movies. 

Interestingly, the data sourced (ie links to the screenplays etc.) is all available in this Google Sheet:  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fbcldxxyRvHjDaaY0EeQnQzvSP7Ub8QYVM2bIs-tKH8/edit#gid=1668340193 and also in this Github Repository : https://github.com/matthewfdaniels/scripts/  

Beyond the shocking conclusions of this study, Hanah and Matt have built and shared some fantastic resources and have demonstrated such generosity in this work.

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Medium's technology publication ran a 3,600-word investigation into a mystery that began when a 66-year-old New York woman Googled directions to her neighborhood, "and found that the app had changed the name of her community..." It's just as well no one contacted Google, because Google wasn't the c...

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Iceland Town Paints Ingenious 3D Optical Illusion Pedestrian Crossing In Order To Slow Down Traffic

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»one hundred flowers« by jia

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parametric type

[oh-ok-ok]

Since the early 1970s Hamish Fulton (born 1946) has been labelled as a sculptor, photographer, Conceptual artist and Land artist. Fulton, however, characterises himself as a ‘walking artist’.

Fulton first came to prominence in the late 1960s as one of a number of artists – including Richard Long and Gilbert & George – who were exploring new forms of sculpture and landscape art. A central characteristic of their practice was a direct physical engagement with landscape. Fulton’s time as a student at St. Martin’s College of Art in London (1966-68) and his journeys in South Dakota and Montana in 1969, encouraged him to think that art could be 'how you view life’, and not tied necessarily to the production of objects. He began to make short walks, and then to make photographic works about the experience of walking.

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thispersondoesnotexist.com

[prostheticknowledge]

AIRBNB HOSTS

Online game by Dries Depoorter and David Surprenant where you have to choose the right host to the advertised AirBNB room:

We found an Airbnb security issue and made a game with it.

‘Airbnb Hosts’ is a browser game using Airbnb data where you need to guess the owner of the room. The game presents you a picture of an Airbnb room and 3 Airbnb Hosts. You need to match the owner with the room!

You can play the game with rooms of your favourite city. All the data is located on Airbnb servers.

We are not sponsored by Airbnb but we added a button “Book This room” so Airbnb will not to angry using their data and have it online.

Try it out for yourself here

[andymorin]

My findings from “This Person Does Not Exist” neural network

Overview

thispersondoesnotexist.com is an A.I. trained to randomly generate human faces. Trained on StyleGAN (generative adversarial network) technology, the network creates composite images of people built from scratch every time you refresh the website. Though the faces are shockingly realistic, none of the people displayed are actual people who exist.

I refreshed the page hundreds of times in hopes of identifying patterns within the faces it generates, and cataloging the features that are hardest for the network to learn.

The Photos

Here are some of the faces:

These all look impressively realistic and there’s no doubt that thispersondoesnotexist is well trained in general facial composition.

My observations will be under the cut because it’s long.

Keep reading

[karenanndonnachie]

Interestingly this author adjudicates the outcomes as if they were the product of a human endeavour at photomontage or collage. I think we still have some distance to cover before we can see these outcomes as more closely representing data (math). The use of the human face as the test outcome has added an extraordinary affect to this project. Following our discussion in class…. thispersondoesnotexist.com

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Consists of two networks trained end-to-end against each other: Generator (G) and Discriminator (D) This text from Goodfellow explains it well...

[taken from] “What is GAN?” – Goodfellow at. al. Generative Adversarial Networks. NIPS 2014

http://thispersondoesnotexist.com https://www.lyrn.ai/2018/12/26/a-style-based-generator-architecture-for-generative-adversarial-networks/