Uncanny Mirror
Artificial intelligence lies somewhere between reality and utopia, as it both fascinates and haunts us, firing our imagination and driving our everyday lives. This technology is the core of Mario Klingemann’s Uncanny Mirror, which reflects the way a computer perceives us. His device comprises a screen equipped with a camera, acting as a strange mirror. Every time a spectator stands in front of it, the machine produces a new moving portrait. Its distinctive feature is the fact that it captures a face’s biometric markers which it then compares with the information stored in its memory. This information is then used to generate a composite portrait based solely on data of people it has previously registered. Klingemann’s augmented version of a mirror is both unpredictable and poetic, and recalls how we are all drawn to mirrors, a reflection of a society that is obsessed with appearance.
