A tour around my face

Portrait photography with a microscope.

June 2017 - online

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I got a USB microscope and of course the first thing I did was look at my sweaty pink beardy face. This starts at my chin and circles past the ears and across the bald wastelands. Apologies for dwelling on that curious blob of puss.

More experiments with digital images at the Birmingham Open Media lab:

A tour around my face: Portrait photography with a microscope. (2017)

Smiling in a Room: Alvin Lucier meets FaceApp (2017)

R(AW)NN: New Robert Anton Wilson texts generated by a Recurrent Neural Network (2017)

Pictures from Dorian Gray: Generating images from a novel using an AI system trained on a photographic archive. (2017)

SIMULACRAMOMA: Maximum object detection on the Moma collection. (2017)

Five David Bowie videos, focus-stacked: Merging music videos (2017)

Auto-blending 2016: Focus-stacking the "best of" photos from news sites. (2016)

Fuck Your Flags: Pixel-sorting the nations of the world into irrelevance. (2016)

t-SNE: Algo-sorting images into aesthetically pleasing grids. (2016)

Foot Camera: Filming a walk with a camera stuck to my shoe (2016)

648 Members of Parliament: All the MPs all at once. (2016)

Golan Levin's Experimental Capture Workshop: An intensive summer school in Aspen. (2016)

Koyaanisqatsi Slitscanned: Swapping the horizontal and temporal axes on a movie. (2016)

Spinning Logos: Destroying corporate sigils using JPEG compression. (2016)

Instabeck: Imagining a lost sculpture using Instagram images (2015)

The Deep Dream of Narcissus: Commentary on Google's Deep Dream machine learning prototype. (2015)

Watchmen, by Brightness: Sorting the panels from the comic book Watchmen by their computated brightness. (2015)

Sitting In Stagram: I am logged into an Instagram account, identical to the one you are in now. (2015)

Which Am I Most Like? Typologies: Exploring shitpic aesthetics through cataloguing a meme. (2015)

Supper Room: Spinning the Last Supper (2015)

Birmingham Open Media Fellowship: Fellowship at arts organisation at intersection of art, technology and science. (2014)

I Am Spinning In A Room: Degrading a selfie by rotating it thousands of times. (2014)

Spectral Songs of the Slitscanned Selfies: What do selfies sound like? (2014)

Flatland Selfies: What do self-portraits look like in one dimension? (2014)

Typologies of Hypernetworked Vernacular Self-Portraiture: A video essay about selfies. (2014)

Next art:

Echo Edit

July 2017: In order to understand data-based performance art I decided to make some.

Previous art:

Smiling in a Room

June 2017: Alvin Lucier meets FaceApp