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何謂未來的臉？

我們如何運用新興科技去決定臉孔的特徵、輪廓以及未來的形狀？
在商業文化及媒體領域裡，臉孔被用來操控形象及流行價值，並且用來替產品代言。但我們在報章雜誌、電影及電視上所看見的臉孔經常已被美化、甚至是被電腦修整過的。
媒體巧妙的操縱臉部影像，還有將顏面分析運用在保全方面的身份鑑識上，共同開啟了革命性的可能。
人類的腦部可以辨識生者與死者的臉，但它很少會將栩栩如生的機器人或電腦虛擬人物看成是活的。那麼，我們又是如何感受一張數位臉孔呢？數位化的表情是如何溝通？另外，隨著數位化臉孔越變越真實，是否會影響我們辨識臉孔的概念？這些新型態的面孔又將如何被接納呢？
這個單元所要探討的是未來科技將會以何種激進的方式改變我們的外貌和我們對身份的認知。藉著比較人的臉孔與數位影像，凸顯出真實臉孔所代表人性、獨特性及神秘性的各個面向。
你可以分辨出這個單元裡的哪些臉是真實的？哪些已被修改過？還有哪些是全然的數位影像嗎？
我們希望我們的臉在未來看起來是什麼樣子呢？

What is the future face?

How will we use our new technologies to determine the face's features, contours and future shapes?
Within commercial culture and the media, faces are used to manipulate appearances and popular values and to endorse products. But the faces we see in newspapers and magazines, in film and television, have often been touched-up and computer-manipulated.
Radical new possibilities have been opened-up both by the manipulation of facial images in the media and by the analysis of faces to classify them for identification on security applications.
The human brain perceives the relationship between a living and a dead face, but rarely does it perceive a 'life-like' robot or avatar as alive. So, how do we experience a digital face? How do digitized expressions communicate? And, as digital faces become more 'real', how will our notions of identity be affected? How will these new types of faces become accepted?
This section considers the extreme ways in which future technologies may alter both our appearances and our perceptions of identity. Comparing a human face with the digital version serves to highlight the aspects of the original that signify humanity, uniqueness and enigma.
Can you tell which of the faces in the section of the exhibition are real faces, which have been manipulated, and which are entirely digital?
What do we want our faces to look like in the future?