Deep Space LIVE: The Machine View – Robotic Face Cartography

Daniel Boschung (CH)
THU September 4 2014, 1:30 PM
FRI September 5 2014, 10:30 AM
SAT September 6 2014, 10:30 AM, 3.30 PM
SUN September 7 2014, 4 PM, 7:30 PM
MON September 8 2014, 10:30AM

Ars Electronica Center, Deep Space

Swiss advertising & press photographer Daniel Boschung maps faces. But instead of snapping the images himself, he delegates the job to an industrial robot controlled by custom-programmed software. The resulting standardized portraits, with their hyper-realistic look and jumbo, 1.8 x 1.8-meter format, generate surprising power and have a disconcerting effect.

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