Artificial Intelligence & Life Art
HONORARY MENTION
Installation
The Normalizing Machine aims to identify and analyze the image of social normalcy. Facing the camera, each participant is asked to point out who looks “more normal” from a line-up of previously recorded participants.
The machine adds the selection to its aggregated algorithmic image of normalcy. The work draws from early investigations into photographic forensics, the Nazi use of face measurement, and today’s methods of algorithmic face recognition. It examines how we perceive, define and categorize “normalcy.”
