"Value": boolean

“To the right, a distorting face inside a rectangle tries to avoid being classified as human - but fails! To the left, algorithms including Boolean operators seek to refine a description of image content with varying amounts of confidence.

The distorted face in this video is mine. I found the computer code fascinating but slightly frightening and found a soothing synthetic voice to compensate.’’ Stuart Pound

The onscreen text is computer code written to enable and optimise facial recognition from a large database of images.

Stuart Pound

Lives in London and has worked in experimental film since the early 1970’s and digital video since the 1990’s. In 1995 Stuart began collaborating with the poet Rosemary Norman. https://www.saatchiart.com/stuart03 https://vimeo.com/stuartpound https://www.instagram.com/stuart.pound/