This is a concept for an gamified social media platform / art installation aiming to explore alternate identity, reflect on the usurping of privacy through facial recognition technology, and make use of historic digitized photographs in the Public Domain to recreate personas from the past.

Please help seed the alpha app with your creative posts!

Step 1. Go to http://portraitdomain.datalets.ch/ and sign up.

Step 2. Log in and click “adopt a portrait” to choose your historical alter ego.

Step 3. Post something. Be *in character*!

Remember, these people lived in the mid 1800s, were considered “deviants” and rejected by society.

• Durheim portraits contributed by the Swiss National Archive

• loleg
• Adrian D
• Daniel B
• Rae