Mon 10th – Fri 21 October 2016, Gray’s School of Art
Experimental boiled film project
Secret 7″ Record Sleeve Design
Selfie Project
This project highlights how we, as a society, are becoming more and more digitalised and how computers can manipulate our views and beliefs. The ‘Selfie Project’ is based on an algorithm of placing a selfie into reverse google image search, and selecting the first result. This image is then placed back into google and, again the first result is selected. This is repeated 50 times to create a chain reaction of multiple images. This operation is repeated in 5 different computers with the same initial selfie, owned by different people from different backgrounds. The results prove to be very different each time, which is a result of the computers cookies and search history. This suggests that when we search something online, we are only being shown what the computer thinks we want to see, which influences our views.
Allana Hardie 
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