Data-Masks are masks created by reverse engineering facial recognition and detection algorithms. These algorithms were used to guide an evolving system toward the production of human-like faces. These evolved faces were 3D printed as masks, shadows of humans seen by the machine. This exposes the way the machine and the surveillance state view human identity and makes the invisible power structures visible. Data-Masks are animistic deities brought out of the algorithmic-spirit-world of the machine and into our material world, ready to tell us their secrets or warn us of the future. Data-Masks are for acts of protest, poetry, civil disobedience, and shamanistic ritual by the citizens of our global village as it becomes blanketed by techno-sphere.
