The program creates images by repeatedly introducing random and algorithmic numbers to a set of routines. By modifying the centralized rule set one can completely change the range of expression, gender and ethnicity as well as stylistic parameters. It is not unlike defining the rules by which one might form a particular species.
These works are intellectually and emotionally provocative. As the machine constructs images of faces and modifies them before one's eyes, various perceptual, associative and interpretive functions are brought to bear by the viewer. The resulting experience is, in part, the entirely novel definition of the relationship between artist, concept/object, and viewer. The work yields to the viewer in all matters of content, meaning and interpretation, in as much as it attributes no object-specific intention to the artist; a perfect inversion of the usual relationship.