Benjamin Schwab
Is Our Mind a Muscle???
Series of five 1:1 scale portraits out of ten people of my closest surrounding taken as a case study. This MA project has evolved around a following of investigations into the functioning of memory and specifically in relation to the face. It is said that there is no single object that we see more often than the human face and none that is so inaccurately remembered as people think about the face as an idea rather than a piece of design. You would hear more often, 'that girl is charming' than 'that girl has a deep and wide pair of eyes'. Thus, starting with the idea of testing our own memory for faces and to see if there is a way to improve it, tasks were given to the selected people and myself. Distant from the crime scene, but by using Flashface, an online "photofits" system or by meeting experts of face identification at Scotland Yard, this project has been driven by a need to overview, challenge and understand the memory process better.
Jamie Buswell • Lee Cavaliere • Jozy Chao-Chih Chen • Nicolás González • Miguel Rodrigues • Sarah Roesink • Shoko Sata • Benjamin Schwab • Killian Toomey • Aris Tsoutsas •
The Arts Institute at Bournemouth
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University of Brighton
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Camberwell College of Arts
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University of Chester
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Cleveland College of Art and Design
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Dublin Institute of Technology
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IADT Dun Laoghaire
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Edinburgh College of Art
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University College Falmouth
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University College Falmouth
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Glasgow School of Art
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University of Gloucestershire Cheltenham
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London College of Communication
Graduate Diploma Digital Lens Based Image-Making
London College of Communication
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University of Wales, Newport
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University of Wales, Newport
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University of Portsmouth
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Central Saint Martins
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Swansea Metropolitan University
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