Techno-Schizo

By Avital Meshi, Artist, UCSC DANM Alumna ’19

Techno-Schizo is an interactive AI performance in which the artist examines her own visibility through the lens of an AI facial recognition system. The system is an off-the-shelf pre-trained software which recognizes faces and analyzes features based on a person’s external appearance. These features include gender, race, age and emotion classifications along with facial features and accessories. By utilizing a performative behavior the artist changes her facial expressions and her hair style in order to modify the confidence level by which the machine analyzes her appearance.