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How To Be More Or Less Human
Creator	Max Dovey
Year	2015
Bio	Max Dovey [UK] is 28.3% man, 14.1% artist and 8.4% 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 in technology and digital culture. 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. Performances will take place every hour during the opening on 3 July and by appointment during the exhibition.

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. A clinic is divided by two computers that continually project words from an image recognition program. A man enters at appointed times and performs a series of actions that are analysed by the image recognition software. The confidence levels of the image recognition program become the basis for a performance between a man and an algorithm. How To Be More Or Less Human examines how computer vision classifies gender, race and class through commercial stock imagery. Visual stereotypes and typologies are highlighted and performed by human and non-human actors to demonstrate how humans are encoded into computer vision.

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 |Creator=Max Dovey
 |Date=2015
-|Bio= Max Dovey [UK] is 28.3% man, 14.1% artist and 8.4% 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 in technology and digital culture. His research is in “liveness” and real-time computation in performance and theatre.
+|Bio=Max Dovey [UK] is 28.3% man, 14.1% artist and 8.4% 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 in technology and digital culture. His research is in “liveness” and real-time computation in performance and theatre.
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+|Description=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. Performances will take place every hour during the opening on 3 July and by appointment during the exhibition.
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+Hello,
+I've signed up for the Developer plan and am really enjoying your auto-tagging software.
+I was wondering if it was possible for someone to tell me a little bit more about how the software is trained to recognise certain things?
+If you have any information on the software training process? or what image library you are using? this would help me out alot.
+Many thanks
+Max Dovey <br>
+<br>
+Hey Max,
+Sorry for the late response! I'm glad to see that you are satisfied with our service!
+On your first question, you can look at our technology page for more info -https://imagga.com/technology/auto-tagging.html. If you have any more specific question on this, please let me know.
+On the second one - we need 1000+ sample images per category/tag and then we can run a training process based on this. Do you have specific use case that need custom training? <br>
+Regards<br>
+Pavel from Imagga<br>
+Hey Pavel,
+I would like for the auto tagging to be 100% confident with gender. For Custom training would I have to submit 1000+ pictures of men and women to achieve 100% confidence?
+Thanks
+Max Dovey <br>
+Hey Max,
+кажу ми да даде и ще направим тест. дори да не е 100% когато не сме сигурно ще е по нисък върнатия конфидънс и ще си преценява дали да го показва или да ходи за модератор
+Hi Max,
+Sorry for the late response!
+We can do the test and see what will be the confidence. You can send us the sample images grouped by gender. If the results and the confidence rate are satisfying you'll be charged $1199 which is our standard rate for custom training. If the results don't fit your expectations, you'll not be charged anything.
+Let me know if you want to proceed with this.
+Regards
+Pavel from Imagga
-Performances will take place every hour during the opening on 3 July and by appointment during the exhibition.
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-===Abstract (longer)===
-How To Be More Or Less Human is a performance investigating how humans are identified by computer vision software. Looking specifically at how the human subject is identified and classified by image recognition software, a representation of the human body is formed. The living presence of a human being cannot be sensed by computer vision, so the human subject becomes a quantifiable data object with a set of attributes and characteristics.  Seeing ourselves in this digital mirror allows us to reflect on other models of perception and develop an understanding of how the human subject is ‘seen’ by the machinic ‘other’. Looking at ourselves through the automated perception of image recognition can highlight how gender, race and ethnicity have been processed into a mathematical model. The algorithm is trained to ‘see’ certain things forcing the human subject to identify themselves within the frame of computer vision.
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-===Images===
+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. A clinic is divided by two computers that continually project words from an image recognition program. A man enters at appointed times and performs a series of actions that are analysed by the image recognition software. The confidence levels of the image recognition program become the basis for a performance between a man and an algorithm.
+How To Be More Or Less Human examines how computer vision classifies gender, race and class through commercial stock imagery. Visual stereotypes and typologies are highlighted and performed by human and non-human actors to demonstrate how humans are encoded into computer vision.