Faciality
Machine(test )

Computer Generated Video
Face recognition system
2022

Every message is a test that, in the form of analysis, statistics and market surveys, reduces the communication system to a question/answer game through which users get profiled. The images that until now had allowed themselves to be passively looked at, now question us about their fidelity to reality, our degree of appreciation and the amount of time we would like to spend looking at them.

The video presents a slow transition between hundreds of faces generated by an artificial intelligence trained on 70,000 images of real faces; at the same time, a facial recognition system modulates the video playback speed, slowing to almost a still frame when the viewer is present, leaving him/her in front of one of the infinite faces that could be generated. On one hand, each real face recognized makes the images produced more and more realistic, on the other hand, the accuracy of the recognition system increases.

In this visual loop, the observing system ​(the viewer) and the observed system ​(the work) collapse on each other and, only then, the viewer can operate within the image.

Installation view at Ri-media, endcourse exhibition at Magazzini Ligabue, Venice, 2022

Installation view at Ri-media, endcourse exhibition at Magazzini Ligabue, Venice, 2022

Installation view at Ri-media, endcourse exhibition at Magazzini Ligabue, Venice, 2022


Installation view at Ri-media, endcourse exhibition at Magazzini Ligabue, Venice, 2022


Installation view at Ri-media, endcourse exhibition at Magazzini Ligabue, Venice, 2022