The unknown person: Post-colonial fictioning, personal stories and surveillance

Abstract

the Unknown Person connects the artist's family history to Britain's postcolonial "fictioning."The project interrogates the gaze of surveillance and social control systems to explore the fiction of the self, data and liminal spaces of the City of London. The final output of this research is a video documentary that employs machine learning processes and facial recognition techniques to generate visuals to reveal the aesthetic value of a neural network. The project culminated as an installation of multiple screens mounted on a scaffolding structure.