Tag: Avatars

Artist LaJuné McMillian Opens Portals To Liberation Through Digital Self-Portraits

At Honor Fraser's current exhibition, the artist asks: "What does it mean to acknowledge the inherent violence in tools?"

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A forest blooming with power cords and algorithms, a sea drowning in data and waste: these are the terrains evoked by Synthetic Wilderness, a group exhibition currently on view at LA’s Honor Fraser gallery until 18 December. Curated by tech writer Jesse Damiani, the show features three artists—Nancy Baker Cahill, Xin Liu and LaJuné McMillian—whose work traverses the social, political and cultural implications of emerging …

Intel Pocket Avatars Make You a Cartoon

Real-time facial recognition software that lets you record and share animations from your phone

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Intel Pocket Avatars is a new app just released on iOS and Android that might be more cutesy than our usual interest, but the technology behind it is very impressive. In short, the app lets you record messages in real time to a cartoon avatar that recognizes head, mouth, eye and eyebrow movement—like this one. There are a bunch of avatars to choose from including …