{"id":11543,"date":"2015-10-13T17:16:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T17:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/?p=11543"},"modified":"2015-10-13T17:16:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T17:16:55","slug":"11543","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/?p=11543","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1VQe1Q9\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1Lj2PRO\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1VQe1Qb\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1VQe1Qd\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1Lj2Nta\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1qG1OKR\">prostheticknowledge<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Eternal Portraits<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Art project by <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/136br7p\" title=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/136br7p\">Brian House<\/a> are framed pieces of Facebook Facial Recognition data of users (thus, a portrait of users characteristics):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Facebook uses face recognition software to identify its users in photos. This works via a \u2018template\u2019 of your facial features that is created from your profile images. These features \u2014 the distance between your eyes, the symmetry of your mouth \u2014 generally do not change over time. Unlike a photograph, which captures some ephemeral expression of who you are at a particular moment, a face recognition template forever remains your portrait. It is all possible photos, taken and untaken, by which you, or someone else, might document your life.<\/p>\n<p>These templates are Facebook\u2019s proprietary data. For a brief period in 2013, users could access their template using the \u201cDownload a copy of your Facebook data\u201d option in the settings (it is no longer included in the download). The information is unusable in its raw form without knowing the specifics of Facebook\u2019s algorithm. But as an irrevocable corporate byproduct, the future implications of such data remain unclear.<\/p>\n<p><em>Eternal Portraits<\/em> is a series of printed and framed face recognition template data from our friends and ourselves.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>More at Brian\u2019s website <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1pdZHOx\" title=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1pdZHOx\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>prostheticknowledge: Eternal Portraits Art project by Brian House are framed pieces of Facebook Facial Recognition data of users (thus, a portrait of users characteristics): Facebook uses face recognition software to identify its users in photos. This works via a \u2018template\u2019 of your facial features that is created from your profile images. These features \u2014 the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439],"tags":[1411,1412,9,89,349,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11543"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11544,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11543\/revisions\/11544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}