Tim Sherratt: The perfect face

Day 1 of NDF 2015, session, Tuesday 13 October 2015 Tim is interested in the possibilities of extracting faces from within heritage collections and presenting them as points of access, exploration, analysis, and critique. Looking into another face creates a connection across time and culture, potentially opening space for empathy and obligation. But facial detection technology is more commonly used in security and marketing, where the face is something to be read for data for labelling or identif