{"id":2436,"date":"2019-02-24T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/artwork\/sharing-faces-2\/"},"modified":"2021-01-12T23:45:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T07:45:11","slug":"sharing-faces-2","status":"publish","type":"artwork","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/artwork\/sharing-faces-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-2436-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/vimeo\" src=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/96549043?loop=0&#038;_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/96549043?loop=0\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/96549043?loop=0<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Sometimes political and socio-economic issues can act as a veil, automating a blurring or skewing of how people may perceive one another.\u00a0 Many people are taught to hate or disagree with entire populations of others because of past or ongoing sociopolitical issues.\u00a0 Furthermore, this thought process produces stigmas and generalizations that will continue to deepen and push the cultures and people apart, until someone tries to reevaluate the situation.\u00a0 A digital artist by the name of Kyle McDonald took this task into his own hands, and created an art installations that utilizes high tech surveillance cameras and specially coded software to bring together people from Japan and South Korea in an attempt to begin the mending of the quite rocky history between the two countries that has never been settled.\u00a0 As Charlie Gere stated in his book, Digital Culture, \u201cInternational political tensions presented a set of problems for which computing and\u00a0 cognate\u00a0 ideas\u00a0 such\u00a0 as\u00a0 Cybernetics\u00a0 offered\u00a0 potential\u00a0 solutions,\u201d [1] just as how McDonald presented his potential solution or at least opportunity for the citizens of Japan and South Korea to connect on a more personal level.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 296px; height: 200px;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/u1899\/sharingfaces1-1-e1409173398630-640x432.jpg\" alt=\"sharingfaces1-1-e1409173398630-640x432.j\" \/>McDonald placed two installations, one in Japan and one in South Korea, that utilized the surveillance cameras to take up to 5,000 photos of each individual that interacted with the installation.\u00a0 The cameras would then, store the \u201cposition (X,Y), orientation (roll, pitch, yaw), and expression (object points),\u201d [2] and using source code, mirror the image of the participant in the installation with people from the opposite country.\u00a0 Moreover, this enabled each admirer from Japan or South Korea to experience their supposed \u201cenemy\u201d in a new light, further establishing the sense of humanity and affinity in each other&#8217;s gaze and movement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 249px; height: 200px;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/u1899\/Screen%20Shot%202019-02-24%20at%207.46.19%20PM.png\" alt=\"Screen%20Shot%202019-02-24%20at%207.46.1\" \/>McDonald stated in an interview with Creative Applications Network that, \u201cStories like this, about moments of reflection on the nature of our connectedness, really moved me,\u201d truly showing his attempt to spark a transcendence of disagreement and prior stigmas, and to encourage the two countries to attempt to drop the veils that cloud their vision of the people who are literal mirror images of themselves.\u00a0 Furthermore, it is quite interesting how many of the code advancements and developments over the years were produced from needs of war; the breaking apart of relations in the ultimate sense.[3]\u00a0 However, this enabled skilled engineers and coding technicians to \u201cexploit their new skills and understandings,\u201d [4] reevaluating the world of code and cybernetics to be used for good instead of destruction.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 200px;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/u1899\/sharing%20faces.png\" alt=\"sharing%20faces.png\" \/>McDonald\u2019s installation is a wonderful lesson in acceptance and reexamination of one\u2019s own opinions or perceptions.\u00a0 Moreover, if we as humans continue to gain further insight into other cultures as well as other people\u2019s ways of life, we might be able to remove our own personal veils that we might not have known we had or refused to recognize, continually striving to connect rather than disjoin.<\/p>\n<p>[1] &#8211;\u00a0Charlie Gere, Digital Culture (London: Reaktion, 2008), 62.<\/p>\n<p>[2] &#8211;\u00a0Kylemcdonald. &#8220;Sharing Faces.&#8221; GitHub. 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