Algorithmic Animal Gaze

Brains, it has recently been argued, are essentially prediction machines. They are bundles of cells that support perception and action by constantly attempting to match incoming sensory inputs with expectations or predictions.(1)

These images are of my body, sorted by how predictable each parcel is to an algorithm that analyzes for compression. Least predictable is sorted from the top left outwards. Coincidentally, the features the computational eye found interesting are the same features human eyes tend to dwell on- eyes, lips, breasts, vulva, fingers, nose. 

This set of drawings explore the computational and cognitive eye, as it relates to bodies, vision, cognition, perception.
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medium
algorithmically sorted image of the artist’s body, digital file
presented in LED panels of the artist’s height.

dimensions
variable

year
2018

exhibitions
MU Hybrid Arthouse
(UN)REAL IN ERASMUS MC ROTTERDAM

awards
Biological Art and Design Award, 2018

tags
perception, cognition, entropy, algorithm, neuroscience

technical collaborator:
Doug von Kohorn