The Human Use of the Human Face

Mask & Souls (2021)

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

»one hundred flowers« by jia

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.

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.

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.

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