Free Fall Study III #20

Shi Zheng’s “Free Fall Study III” documents experiments in falling simulation from the video installation “Free Fall.” The vertical, narrow perspective of the work captures computer-simulated white sheet masks that keep falling downwards. As another layer in the work, a computer-vision recognition system surveils and detects how the image is moving. The facial recognition system then identifies whether the image of each falling mask matches the features of a human face. Numbers between 0.0 and 1.0 represent the approximation value of “human" identified by the machine compared to “real human.” In today’s highly observed, studied, and...View all