2021
Landmarks is an exploration of the ways artificial intelligence, and specifically facial recognition, fails to comprehend trans bodies (misgendering) and the threat this failure possesses to trans livelihoods as these technologies become increasingly integrated into our daily lives. The work consists of an interactive website featuring compositions that explore these issues. Using facial recognition in an isolated environment while simultaneously manipulating the visual effects of the data overlay, this work centers and examines the process of extracting and analyzing biometric data. Landmarks asks us to consider how technology sees us and what happens when it fails to see us for who we are?
Chelsea Thompto
United States
Chelsea Thompto (she/her) is a transdisciplinary artist and educator working at the intersections of art, trans studies, and technology. Her research based studio practice spans a variety of media which often include code, video, sound, writing, and sculpture and her work has been shown nationally and internationally. Born and raised in Iowa, she has spent most of her life between the Midwest and California and is an incoming Assistant Professor of Creative Technologies at Virginia Tech.