(Original working title: Portrait Domain)

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. When logged in, click “adopt a portrait” to choose your historical alter ego.

Step 2. 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 learn more or adapt the concept to other domains and datasets.

• Durheim portraits contributed by the Swiss National Archive

The exhibit gathers data on user interactions with historical portraits, which is combined with analytics from the web application on the Logentries platform:

Launched by loleg at the hackdays, this project has already had over a dozen collaborators and advisors who have kindly shared time and expertise in support. Thank you to:

Please also see the closely related projects picturethis and graphing_the_stateless.

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