This project highlights how we, as a society, are becoming more and more digitalised and how computers can manipulate our views and beliefs. The ‘Selfie Project’ is based on an algorithm of placing a selfie into reverse google image search, and selecting the first result. This image is then placed back into google and, again the first result is selected. This is repeated 50 times to create a chain reaction of multiple images. This operation is repeated in 5 different computers with the same initial selfie, owned by different people from different backgrounds. The results prove to be very different each time, which is a result of the computers cookies and search history. This suggests that when we search something online, we are only being shown what the computer thinks we want to see, which influences our views.
Below are the 5 different results on display at the Adaptor Exhibiton at Gray's School of Art in September 2016.
