Portraits of No One: An Interactive Installation

The X-Faces Behind the Portraits of No One

“…Also, the diversity of images that are generated is notable. All these features reveal the great potential in different areas, namely in the expansion of face detection datasets through the generation of new examples and the search for examples that exploit the vulnerabilities of the face detectors [1,2], along with Media Art through the generation of artificial portraits based on the audience faces [3].…”

“…More recently, we explored the capabilities of the developed approach in a more artistic context. The result is the interactive Media Art installation Portraits of No One [3]. This installation generates and displays portraits of human faces by recombining the facial parts that are retrieved from the faces of its audience (see Fig.…”

Portraits of No One: An Internet Artwork

“…The presented artwork consists of a web page that continuously displays artificial face portraits that are generated on-demand by recombining the faces captured from its users (see Figure 1). This artwork is built on the interactive installation Portraits of No One [3], which was created for Sonae Media Art Award 2019 and selected as a finalist artwork. This installation was exhibited at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), in Lisbon, Portugal, from late 2019 to early 2020.…”

“…The artificial portraits exhibited in the artwork web page are generated by blending the elementary facial parts (eyebrows, eyes, nose and mouth) of different faces captured from the users. This process is detailed in [3]. The selection of the faces that are blended to create each new portrait is random while taking into account the timestamps of the faces, in order to select faces captured more recently.…”