THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEFORE AND AFTER
©Jonty Wilde
2021
Sheep portraits with facial recognition technology
Sheep portraits with facial recognition technology
Images of individual sheep from the installation work ALTERNTIVE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR: THE SHEEP OF MR. CHARLES PLATTS, currently on display in Country Park. The photographs are overlaid with facial recognition technology developed by Kostya Novoselov in his laboratory in Singapore.
The work raises questions about individuality, the nature of crowds, statistics, randomness, control and chaos.
How much can one individual contribute towards any new reality, any new set of rules?
Today, we are able to use facial recognition technology for a wide variety of reasons: to measure the distances between easily recognisable marks on a face, or to explore the breadth of human variability and the richness of human emotions, etc. But how far can we take this technology forward? Can it be used for other species, or will it fail completely? Will we ever connect, or will the animal kingdom remain forever as a random, even chaotic, system?
The work raises questions about individuality, the nature of crowds, statistics, randomness, control and chaos.
How much can one individual contribute towards any new reality, any new set of rules?
Today, we are able to use facial recognition technology for a wide variety of reasons: to measure the distances between easily recognisable marks on a face, or to explore the breadth of human variability and the richness of human emotions, etc. But how far can we take this technology forward? Can it be used for other species, or will it fail completely? Will we ever connect, or will the animal kingdom remain forever as a random, even chaotic, system?