The Face of Berlin
The Face of Berlin is a LEM-Studios project, inspired by The Face of Tomorrow. The site is not continued, so the contribution for our home town Berlin didn’t make it online there.
One idea of meta images is to create an averaged representation of several images containing the same subject or “type”, in this case “Faces of Berlin”. Other relationships are possible, eg: pictures of a movie, as shown here in the Meta Movies by Christian Mahler.
Christian and me went out to take over 100 pictures, then we began working on groups of female and male faces. That included a geometrical morph, which is a more sophisticated process, than just adding rgb values divided by the number of images. We worked in pairs of faces, where two became one. The first generation of 16 pictures was made of 32 individuals, the second 8 out of those 16 and so on. I’m sure, you know, what I mean. In other words: an artificial evolution, canceling out mutation or variation, ending up in a “perfect” or “average” face – decide yourself.
Faces of Berlin
Meta News
For a students research project, I analyzed different types of printed media. I took a yellow press paper, a “serious” daily news paper and (of course) the holy bible. By the single pages, I inspected layout, typography and use of pictures. For better comparison and to pose a statement about the nature of the medium, I generated a meta picture of each.
The whole analysis is worth another article. It’s just to give another example of the meta principle as a tool for visual comparison. The information of single pages, which are otherwise perceived one after another, is condensed in one meta page and certain visual characteristics become more obvious.
Meta News
