Fusiform Face Area 40" X 40" X 2" 2026

Fusiform Face Area refers to the part of the human brain devoted to recognizing human faces. Animated Rorshach style inkblots are feed into a custom facial detection system. The algorithm marks out what it thinks might represent human faces and displays this on a second monitor. Project becomes a psychological game for humans and computer to play simultaneously. Viewers can recognize shapes within the inkblots and visualize how the facial criteria of the computer differs radically from our own. On a secondary level, since Rorschach images are used to help therapists delve into unconscious material, the project seeks to ask questions about the mystery of the human unconscious and how it's unknowability might be connected to or embedded in the completely opaque processes running current AI systems.