This is a series of photographs selected from a record produced by a New Media installation. This series is different in intent from that project; visit that page to fully understand how these were created.

These images explore the uncanny valley and our perception of what constitutes a human face, as opposed to what a machine sees as a human face. The “uncanny valley” is a term used to describe the point at which copies of humans are realistic enough to be repulsive, yet are not perceived as human. An entity in the uncanny valley is somewhere between barely-human and fully-human.

A computer algorithm was used to detect and extract human faces from a video feed captured via iSight camera. The program then combined the faces it saw over a period of time. The result is a mix of two or more individuals.