Fri 6 Oct 2006
Let’s Face It – Sydney’s City of Villages: The City of Sydney council commissioned Karen Donnelly, Raimond de Weerdt and Tony Nott to build composite faces of Sydney based on Bureau of Statistics figures. The Sydney faces are a result of 1400 photographs, layered and morphed using a specialist program. They have used the stats to also create composite faces for four suburbs in the inner city: Redfern, the Rocks, Surry Hills and Haymarket. I think it’s funny how the male figure looks a lot like a cross between John Hurt and an American actor whose name escapes me. The Rocks faces also look disturbingly colonial (the Rocks was the site of Sydney’s first real European settlement and still retains many of the original colonial buildings).
The Face of Tomorrow is a similar project with an international focus. There are plenty other wonderful morphing projects, check out Meggan Gould’s Go ogle series where images are created from the first 100 images retrieved from a Google search. More unsettling is Jason Salavon’s morphing of every playboy centerfold in a given decade [I found the last two links through information aesthetics, a facinating site that explores the interaction of data and design].
