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 us get this project going with your creativity!

Step 1. Go to http://portraits.soda.camp 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 deviant or even criminal and marginalized by society.

Update: since the #glamhack event where this project started, we have developed an offline installation which uses Augmented Reality to explore the portraits. See videos on Twitter or Instagram. Please contact Oleg if you would like to see this exhibit or talk about adapting the concept to other domains and datasets.

• Durheim portraits contributed by the Swiss National Archive

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