[Help Me Know the Truth]

[Help Me Know the Truth]

MARY FLANAGAN

EXHIBITION
1 Mar 2018 -
5:00pm to 7:00pm

UCLA Art | Sci Center Gallery
CNSI Building
5th Floor
5-7pm

[help me know the truth] is a participatory artwork in which visitors become part of the work across the exhibition. Participants first snap a digital portrait at a small photo booth at the entrance to the show, and their images are used in the work. In the gallery, participants can choose between two slightly altered portraits to match the text label shown on digital devices. By selecting slight variations of the images over time, differing facial features emerge that reveal larger unconscious beliefs about facial features or tendencies related to culture and identity. The project uses a process called "reverse correlation" from computational neuroscience to capture these beliefs.