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September 18, 2014 Sophie Weiner

Two students from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design set out to create a visual representation of social media streams that would change the ephemeral medium into something more solid. Syver Lauritzsen and Eirik Haugen Murvold’s “Monolitt,” is an obelisk that dispenses colored paint in accordance with mood data from social media.  The installation relies […]

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July 19, 2013 Julia Dawidowicz

Movies consist of countless frames of countless faces in countless situations. How can a movie’s “identity” be summed up into one image? This is what Seoul-based artist duo Shinseungback Kimyonghun sought to find out with their project Portrait, a series of algorithmically-generated composites of faces from films like Kill Bill: Vol. 1, The Matrix, Oldboy and Taxi Driver. The artists used facial recognition […]

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