It's a Face-eat-face World
Yiu Sheung
The video essay is a digital fable tracing the cyclical evolution from facial recognition to synthetic facial data. Beginning with a digital scan of the artist’s own face, it recounts the invention of facial recognition and the emergence of synthetic datasets.
Production Year
2025
Duration
00:11:00
Tyyppi
Asiasana
3D films, computer vision, contemporary art, digital twin, face, facial recognition (computer science), fortune-telling, media art
Original Title
It's a Face-eat-face World
English Title
It's a Face-eat-face World
Production Countries
Finland,Germany
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Sheung Yiu (Author), Bela Moritz (Cinematographer), Sheung Yiu (Cinematographer), Marija Šumarac (Composer), Sheung Yiu (Director), Bela Moritz (Editor), Sheung Yiu (Editor), Sheung Yiu (Producer), Sheung Yiu (Script), Marija Šumarac (Sound Design), Sheung Yiu (Copyright Holder), Sheung Yiu (Actor), Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung (Funder)
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Sheung Yiu (b. 1991, Hong Kong) is an image-centered artist and a doctoral researcher in photography, based in Helsinki. Yiu explores imaging practices emerging at the intersection of photography and large-scale computation, from facial recognition to remote sensing. Yiu tells digital fables about computer vision through excavating and aestheticizing large-scale vision datasets, to problematize the assumption that human vision is a computable problem.