Studio 360 Interview
February 11, 2013
WNYC and PRI’s Studio 360 did a great feature on my Stranger Visions project:
http://www.studio360.org/2013/feb/08/making-portraits-out-of-dna/
I received an anonymous sample of hair, and made a portrait of this person’s DNA – see the results below!
Kurt Anderson’s DNA Portrait (age 25)
Photo by Julia Lowrie Henderson + Montage by Stefan Sierhej
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Still, Nice.
I’m wondering if your ‘faces’ can pass the turing test, or even if they get past the ‘uncanny valley’ it’s hard knowing not seeing first hand…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
Oh my they definitely wouldn’t pass as flesh! I would say they are squarely in the uncanny valley…
Ha!
Let me think about it….
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Ha!
I’ve always thought that the first ‘sapient’ automata will scare the poop out of people, mostly becuse we cant replicate sensory percepton exactly as humans ‘see’ the world….
Great work!