Ethan Ham
Benjamin Rosenbaum
Ethan is a sculptor and installation artist who often uses kinetics, electronics, and computers in his artwork.
Benjamin Rosenbaum is one of science fiction’s brightest stars.
WORK
Title:
Anthroptic
2007
Flash, HTML, mp3
Anthroptic is a collaboration between author Benjamin Rosenbaum and visual artist Ethan Ham. The project consists of a series of eight photos that were selected by a facial recognition software program from among the millions on flickr.com (a photo upload/sharing website).
The photos, uploaded by strangers to flickr.com, are ones in which the facial recognition program erroneously detected a face—something akin to how humans see shapes in clouds. The selected photos inspired interconnecting short stories by Benjamin Rosenbaum. The stories are read aloud by actors (and in a couple of cases, a computer text-to-voice program).
