the Unknown Person connects the artist's family history to Britain's postcolonial “fictioning.” The project interrogates the gaze of surveillance and social control systems to explore the fiction of the self, data and liminal spaces of the City of London. The final output of this research is a video documentary that employs machine learning processes and facial recognition techniques to generate visuals to reveal the aesthetic value of a neural network. The project culminated as an installation of multiple screens mounted on a scaffolding structure.

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2020
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the Unknown Person video documentation

The video documentation of the artwork at the exhibition, neural network generated visuals, face detection system and the installation of multiple screens mounted on a scaffolding structure. (Images © 2019, Eddie Wong; music CC-BY 2007 Kevin MacLeod)

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the Unknown Person

The film interrogates the gaze of surveillance and social control systems to explore the fiction of the self, data and liminal spaces in the City of London by connecting the artist's family history to Britain's colonial past. (Images © 2019, Eddie Wong; music CC-BY 2009 Kevin MacLeod)

- mp4 file
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