Fingerprint portraits: Ai and human identity

  

Fingerprint portrait and mock-up display, fingerprints paintings on transparent paper

Are digital surfaces making our physical identities invisible?

 Is the concept of  an identity limited to the human being?

 

Can technology have an identity too?

Two different proposals have been developed to explore these questions, although these can be united and seen as part of the same work. The works particulary address the issues of perception of the body and identity, in relation to Artificial Intelligence.

1. Series of medium-sized “fingerprints portraits/paintings”  

These explore the loss and erasure of our identity: the exterior world and touch are increasingly related to the digital and virtual realm (instead of the physical one) and to the reliance of artificial intelligence- technologies which I see as not having a 'true' identity. Through digital technologies, we are losing contact and feel of the exterior world. The value of touch and feeling, which define our identities, is explored through the use of the fingerprint.

2. Mirrors for public engagement

This piece is thought to be made out of a large mirror occupying a wall of the installation space, which the public will have to interact with. 

The viewer/participant will be provided their own fingerprint ink-pad and will be encouraged to leave fingerprint traces on the work, signifying the importance of our identity and touch. This will enable the project to simultaneously engage and entertain participants, which makes them reflect on contemporary issues on identity and erasure related to technology.