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Memory @ AVAF 2010 from pkmital on Vimeo.

‘Memory’ is an augmented installation of a neural network by Parag K Mital & Agelos Papadakis.
hand blown glass, galvanized metal chain, projection, cameras; 1.5m x 2.5m x 3m

Ghostly images of faces appear as recorded movie clips within neural-shaped hand-blown glass pieces. As one begins to look at the neurons, they notice the faces as their own, trapped as disparate memories of a neural network.

Filmed and installed for the Athens Video Art Festival in May 2010 in Technopolis, Athens, Greece. The venue is a disused gas factory converted art space.

Also seen at Kinetica Art Fair, Ambika P3, London, UK, 2010; Passing Through Exhibition, James Taylor Gallery, London, UK, 2009; Interact, Lauriston Castle, Edinburgh, UK, 2009.

If you are one of the +500 million users of facebook, and you know your user id, try plugging it in here: http://zesty.ca/facebook/

This uses the Facebook Graph API to get information about Facebook users in a very accessible manner. Of course, it is only your “public” information that is accessible without authorization. But once you “allow” an application to access your information, you’re allowing access to EVERYTHING.

Generally, these items are publicly known:

{
   "id": "0123456789",
   "name": "Parag K Mital",
   "first_name": "Parag",
   "middle_name": "K",
   "last_name": "Mital",
   "locale": "en_US"
}

and also your Profile picture.

Check out a montage of the first 3600 Facebook user’s profile pictures, obtained just by using the public url: http://graph.facebook.com/USER_ID/picture

And an image of the average of all 3600 profile images:

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