This i.R.D. Perfect De/Calibration Army tele-chorale was rendered especially for
Technofetishism: Whip it into Shape. March 21, 2025 - August 31, 2025. MOMus, Thessaloniki, Greece.
The i.R.D. Perfect de/Calibration Army was formed with the help of Perfect365, an app for the mobile phone that describes itself as:
“the best FREE virtual make-up app, period. It’s like having a glam squad in your pocket”
The free app offers virtual photo make-up, including filters such as ‘delete blemishes’ and ‘brighten or soften skin’. It can also deepen the smile, add virtual lipstick tatoos, enlarge the eyes and make the face slimmer, lift the cheeks, enhance the nose, or resize the lips. Give yourself fat duck lips. just to name a few of those perfections.
I used the app on the most wide spread White Shadows; the caucasian ladies that were used as color test cards for image processing - not once, not twice, but hundreds of times over and over ...
... so much perfection ...
With every tuning of the face, the portraits would turn just one shade lighter, slimmer or smoother... until the newly beautified faces would move from exaggeration to showcasing the absurdity of beautifying standards.
Seven one of a kind archival prints that each come with an embedded AR video. The prints are embedded in a custom build list of wood that has a test target extruding out of it.
1. Decalibrated Self portrait with USAF1951 Resolution test Tri-bars [46 x 58 cm including black square]
2. Decalibrated Self portrait with quarter Siemens Star and DIY Test Resolution Target for Pixel Resolution [39 x 45 cm with extruding DIY Test Resolution Target]
3. Decalibrated Self portrait with Facial Recognition crosshair [47 x 38 cm including extruding crosshair]
4. Decalibrated Self portrait with Ronchigrams for mirror curvature testing [45 x 58 cm including Ronchigrams]
5. Decalibrated Ariane Shutterstock model with Modulation Transfer Function Tests, Fitz Patrick Scale, Discrete Cosine Transform and Quadrant Pattern registration marks [41 x 37 cm including extruding Modulating Transfer Function Test]Measurements approximate and do not include custom build list
6. La Inconnue de la Seine (aka: CPR ANNIE / ANNIE R U OK?) with noise stripe (42.16 x 55.21 cm)
7. Lena JPEG with DCT extrusion (46.06 x 46.06 cm)
7. Tay Tweets with Facial Recognition crosshair (55 x 55 cm)Measurements approximate and do include custom build list
“the best FREE virtual make-up app, period. It’s like having a glam squad in your pocket”
The free app offers virtual photo make-up, including filters such as ‘delete blemishes’ and ‘brighten or soften skin’. It can also deepen the smile, add virtual lipstick tatoos, enlarge the eyes and make the face slimmer, lift the cheeks, enhance the nose, or resize the lips. Give yourself fat duck lips. just to name a few of those perfections.
I used the app on the most wide spread White Shadows; the caucasian ladies that were used as color test cards for image processing - not once, not twice, but hundreds of times over and over ...
... so much perfection ...
With every tuning of the face, the portraits would turn just one shade lighter, slimmer or smoother... until the newly beautified faces would move from exaggeration to showcasing the absurdity of beautifying standards.
Seven one of a kind archival prints that each come with an embedded AR video. The prints are embedded in a custom build list of wood that has a test target extruding out of it.
1. Decalibrated Self portrait with USAF1951 Resolution test Tri-bars [46 x 58 cm including black square]
2. Decalibrated Self portrait with quarter Siemens Star and DIY Test Resolution Target for Pixel Resolution [39 x 45 cm with extruding DIY Test Resolution Target]
3. Decalibrated Self portrait with Facial Recognition crosshair [47 x 38 cm including extruding crosshair]
4. Decalibrated Self portrait with Ronchigrams for mirror curvature testing [45 x 58 cm including Ronchigrams]
5. Decalibrated Ariane Shutterstock model with Modulation Transfer Function Tests, Fitz Patrick Scale, Discrete Cosine Transform and Quadrant Pattern registration marks [41 x 37 cm including extruding Modulating Transfer Function Test]Measurements approximate and do not include custom build list
6. La Inconnue de la Seine (aka: CPR ANNIE / ANNIE R U OK?) with noise stripe (42.16 x 55.21 cm)
7. Lena JPEG with DCT extrusion (46.06 x 46.06 cm)
7. Tay Tweets with Facial Recognition crosshair (55 x 55 cm)Measurements approximate and do include custom build list