©Timo Wright

17th Art Division Jury Selections

Race Code

Interactive art

Timo WRIGHT / Matti NIINIMAEKI [Finland]

Outline

Race Code is a photography-based interactive installation that tackles the issues of race, culture and perceptions of one’s self. It is a computer program which mimics the selective feelings that humans have towards each other. The viewer inputs photo data into the race code of the program, cannot have any control of the classification conducted by the computer program.