Cloud Face (selected image), 2012, Camera, face detection algorithm and custom software, Pigment print, Variable dimensions.

Humans see figures in clouds: animals, faces and even gods. This kind of perception also appears in machine vision. Face-detection algorithms sometimes find faces where there are not any.

'Cloud Face' is a compilation of cloud images that AI identifies as human faces, a phenomenon born out of AI's error. While humans may also perceive faces in some of these images, they don't regard them as actual faces. Instead, humans tend to imagine faces within the clouds. 'Cloud Face' explores the error and imagination of AI and humans.

  • Cloud Face (documentation video), 2012.

  • Cloud Face (detection process), 2012.


  • Cloud Face (selected image), 2012.

  • Cloud Face (selected image), 2012.

  • Cloud Face (selected image), 2012.

  • Cloud Face (selected image), 2012.


  • Cloud Face (installation view), 2012, Pigment print on Cotton Rag Paper, 200 cm x 80 cm.

  • Cloud Face (installation view at Ars Electronica Center, 2014-2021), 2012, Pigment print on DIBOND,
    composition of 50 images, 100 x 100 cm each.