How To Be More Or Less Human
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| Creator | Max Dovey |
| Year | 2015 |
| Bio | Max Dovey [UK] is 28% man, 14% artist and 8% successful. His performances confront how computers, software and data affect the human condition. Specifically he is interested in how the meritocracy of neo-liberal ideology is embedded and distributed within technology and digital culture. Previous performances involve selling failed kickstarter projects, improvising with social media data and telling stories with the Apple chatbot ‘Siri’. His research is in liveness and real-time computation in performance and theatre. |
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| Website | http://howtobemoreorless.com |
How To Be More Or Less Human investigates how human activity is classified by image recognition software. Computer vision and the gaze of the webcam become the basis for a performance that explores how online databases form an identity of the human subject.
The installation will be open daily and the performance will take place at 19:30 on Friday 3rd July 2015 and 19:30 on Thursday 10th July 2015.