Faces, a short interactive screen experience exploring perception, illusions and conspiracies.
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faces is a short interactive screen experience exploring perception, illusions and conspiracies.
faces explores how we construct narratives, highlighting the role a reader plays in determining meaning and truth. It interrogates how we piece together information to understand the world around us, questioning why we trust some forms of content more than others, what we wilfully ignore because it doesn’t fit with our narrative, and highlighting the role internet prompts and interactions can play in shaping how we tell and understand stories, and make sense of ‘facts'.
The piece was partly inspired by ‘connecting the dots’, a psychology paper that suggests a connection between ‘illusory pattern perception’ and belief in conspiracy theories. The paper claims that individuals with a tendency to see patterns, to attribute meaning or narrative to random stimuli were more likely to believe in conspiracy theories.
In the era of fake news and online conspiracy theories, the faces is a timely exploration of our attempt to find patterns in chaos, to determine if something is false, or real, or perhaps just an illusion.
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