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Nonfacial Portrait review: art fights to save faces and paint over AI

Artists play cat and mouse with face-recognition software at a South Korean exhibition in the battle to retain a division between humanity and machines

By Douglas Heaven

14 November 2018

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New AI makes it hard to paint a face only humans recognise as such

Shinseungback Kimyonghun

, Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea, to 18 November. Keep an eye on Culture for future showings

NINE portraits hang on a wall. The mouths and eyes have been scrubbed out, the faces painted over or dissected with thick smears of colour until the sitter sinks out of sight. This is resistance art: the revolution will not be recognised.

is an installation by South Korean artists Shin Seung Back and Kim Yong Hun. Commissioned for the…

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