#anthroptic

Anthroptic by Benjamin Rosenbaum and Ethan Ham, 2007. A book consisting of 8 Images containing the artist's face faultily recognized by a facial recognition algorithm and one story for each image.

The images were taken from Ham’s online project “Self-Portraits” in which he trained a facial recognition program to his face before unleashing it onto the internet photo service Flickr. While searching the millions of photos on Flickr for its creator, the computer program sometimes made mistakes, identifying inanimate objects as the artist.

These mistake images became the starting point for Rosenbaum’s short short story that can be read in any order.