This Person Is Not Me (2022)
This Person Is Not Me is an interactive mural comprising hundreds of similar portraits. They all look like the artist, but none of them is her. All were generated by an AI system trained to recognize the artist as its subject and produce original portraits in response to text prompts. Each image shows the artist's face, but this face is contextualized according to pre-given words. If the prompt is "the subject as an old, sad person," the AI will likely generate the artist's face with wrinkles, gray hair, and a frown. The mural exposes the connection between words and visual imagery as the artist explores the appearance of her face under various prompts, examining words related to different identities and revealing biopolitical structures. An AR layer is attached to each image to invite viewers to reveal the words used to create the image.
This Person Is Not Me is an interactive mural comprising hundreds of similar portraits. They all look like the artist, but none of them is her. All were generated by an AI system trained to recognize the artist as its subject and produce original portraits in response to text prompts. Each image shows the artist's face, but this face is contextualized according to pre-given words. If the prompt is "the subject as an old, sad person," the AI will likely generate the artist's face with wrinkles, gray hair, and a frown. The mural exposes the connection between words and visual imagery as the artist explores the appearance of her face under various prompts, examining words related to different identities and revealing biopolitical structures. An AR layer is attached to each image to invite viewers to reveal the words used to create the image.
