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Interactive Installation, Expression Portrait

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Interactive Installation, Expression Portrait

Interactive Installation, Expression Portrait

Interactive Installation, Expression Portrait

Frame still from Expression Portrait, we have six black and white photographs against a black background. Each photograph shows six different people with varying facial expressions, photographed from the shoulders up. The top left figure has long hair with their mouth open with their eyes slightly downward. The top center figure also has long hair, mouth closed, eyes gazing at the camera. The figure on the top right has short hair, head pulled back, forehead wrinkled from expression, face contorted in an open-mouthed frown with wide, open eyes, teeth visible. Bottom left figure has pulled back hair and is gazing directly at the camera with closed mouth, as is the bottom center person too. The bottom right individual has a short haircut with both eyes and mouth closed. Underneath the six photos reads a caption, 'However, many emotions impact our faces in culturally specific ways.'

Frame still from Expression Portrait, a very minimal black and white image with long, thin lines of white scattered throughout the screen in varying, curving directions. Similar to a web, the lines resemble beams of light and are all different sizes and from thicker to thinner, thicker being in the foreground and thinner in the back, creating depth and dimension to the image and the paths the lights are taking. Underneath reads a caption midway through a sentence, 'Machine learning, generally speaking, works through a process of learning and recognition,'

Frame still from Expression Portrait, a photograph image of a short-haired cat. The cat is centered in the photograph and is standing against a white background. The whole image itself is against a black frame background. The cat is shown from its front shoulders and upward, and has wide-open green eyes with its ears sticking straight up. It also has white downturn whiskers, and fuzzy zig-zag gray on white stripes. Underneath reads a sentence-fragment caption, 'For example, humans learn to recognize cats by seeing lots of cats and learning to extrapolate...'

Frame still from Expression Portrait, a photograph of three people side-by-side, depicted from the shoulders up with varying facial expressions. The figure on the left has a facial expression with open eyes and a closed mouth, neither smiling nor frowning. The center figure has eyebrows slightly raised underneath a wrinkled forehead, with a closed mouth framed by a beard and long moustache. The figure on the right is smiling with eyes nearly closed, mouth open with teeth showing. Underneath reads a sentence-fragment caption, 'For the face values exhibition, I developed an interactive artwork that asks a computer...'

Frame Still from Expression Portrait, four separate photographs of four different people of varying angry facial expressions. The top left corner figure has their mouth open, bottom lip forward, as if mid-speech. Their eyebrows are a-symmetrical, a bit scrunched over half-open eyes. On the top right, the figure has a wrinkled forehead making their eyebrows closer over half-open eyes, lips curled over an open mouth, mid-speech. The bottom left figure also has a open mouth and curled lips in the shape of an O, eyes half-closed. The bottom right figure has an open mouth, neither smiling or frowning, open eyes, and smooth forehead. Underneath reads a sentence-fragment acption, 'The 'anger' videos have a lot of scrunched up faces, and so on.'

Photograph of two people gazing at a screen. One person is sitting and the other is standing to the right, the sitter is the participant in the installation video. The screen is hanging on a small wall with two lights shining from the top corners. The wall has decorative pipes running vertically and around the screen. The screen itself has three photograph portraits of three different people showing various facial expressions: the center image is the sitter's face. Underneath the screen in the bottom right corner there is a bright red button. In the background behind both viewers is a gallery wall with three hanging posters and wall text that reads 'Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum,' with smaller, unreadable text underneath it.

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