Gradient with Chinese text characters by 19.
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By Christian Lawrence, 2010.
WRONG WRITERS >|< Richard Matheson (2014)
Animated gif by OKKULT Motion Pictures
500×500 pxOn the occasion of the 2014 International Turin Book Fair, we have created WRONG WRITERS, a collection of Animated GIFs dedicated to some of our favorite okkult writers.
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Text graphics by Manfred Schroeder at Bell Labs in 1968. For the cover of the exhibition catalogue for Some More Beginnings organised by Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) at the Brooklyn Museum. h/t: Tim Koch
Wahlpoesie by Sarah Howorka. Replaces letters with whitespace in various Austrian parties’ election programs, using UNIX command line.
h/t: @zproc
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 ‘template’ of your facial features that is created from your profile images. These features — the distance between your eyes, the symmetry of your mouth — 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.
These templates are Facebook’s proprietary data. For a brief period in 2013, users could access their template using the “Download a copy of your Facebook data” 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’s algorithm. But as an irrevocable corporate byproduct, the future implications of such data remain unclear.
Eternal Portraits is a series of printed and framed face recognition template data from our friends and ourselves.
More at Brian’s website here