Centered on her ongoing investigations into the politics of technology, Rhonda Holberton's multimedia installation, The Italian Navigator has Landed in the New World, imagines the body as seen by the machine on the other side of the screen.

Utilizing the austere aesthetics of digital semantics found in image recognition algorithms, the work OPTICAL DESIGN FOR ZERO ORDER REDUCTION is a vinyl wallpaper comprised of over 300,000 points resembling a starry night. The pattern was developed by PrimeSense for Microsoft's Kinect, a game console that uses the pattern of infrared dots in their package for position tracking and facial recognition. According to Microsoft documentation, the Kinect can identity your face and automatically log you in to your profile account.

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