Machine is History 機器是歷史
2019, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong
Joint exhibition “The Wall 2019 ｜ 牆 2019”
Human does not always record all of the information relevant to later historians, with the help of the machine, history can be recorded in different contexts and presented in an unconventional way which provides us with an alternative point of view to history.
This series of images were created by using machine learning in the facial reconstruction of some historical figures of the May Fourth Movement and PRC. The 3D geometries were created from 2D images - the machine can identify a face in a photograph and reconstruct the 3D facial geometry.
A reappearance of historical figures and rewriting of history.