2 color mega-piece that was born out one consideration: how do machines see us? To a machine, the most beautiful person is a sequence of dots, 1's and 0's, yes' and no's. Beauty naturally draws us in, but as we attempt to draw closer to the beauty here, it disappears into field of seemingly random squares of black and white. The intent is encourage the viewer to consider their relationship with beauty, and just how much of the world they take in through screens. 1's and 0's. Yes and no. |
I feel compelled to engage with this since thats more or less the premise of this submission.
i'm pretty sure a machine wouldn't use error difusion when down-sampling an image using photoshop. a machine can understand facial features in this day an age and convert it to raw data. and even then, it wouldn't use halftoning as a way to deconstruct said data as a means to understand it since thats a printing technique first and foremost intented for images that can't use too many ink colors - dithering in itself being a form of compression only adds extra steps to the cognitive process of this machine - it wouldn't be an efficient method for data processing, only for data transfer, and that doesn't seem to be the scenario here.
while I understand the concept behind it, i feel disingenous that this is presented as a means to "engage with beauty through the lens of a machine" when certainly the machine doesn't understand the concept of beauty, nor it picked the photos used as a way to represent said beauty. if anything its just a thinly veiled portrait of your own bias towards asian women from what i can tell and a lack of interest in black women, either because the dithering pattern couldn't process poc portraits in ways that matched the rest of the composition or just because you don't see people of color worthy of your pretty faces collage.