15 minutes, anonymous

I ran a face detection algorithm over a large pile of popular pictures: actors, actresses, politicians, all the faces the web keeps recycling. Instead of recognizing them, the algorithm dissolved them. The more famous the face, the more pixelated, anonymous and abstract it came back.

I selected the results and put them together in a fifteen minutes long slideshow, plus a few poster prints. Warhol promised everyone fifteen minutes of fame. Here everyone gets fifteen minutes of the exact opposite.

2012
Digital pictures, slideshow, poster prints
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