Anybody know where this Museum Is?

[liberalpragmatist]

I've been trying to find this for years; about 4 years back, I remember reading in a travel magazine about a new museum in which there was an exhibit on race. As part of this exhibit, you could take a photo of yourself and have that scanned and digitally altered to show what you would look like if you were of a different race; so for instance, if you were white, you could obtain a picture that was unmistakeably your face but made to appear as though you were black or Asian by making the subtle chances in facial structure and in skin tone, eye color, hair color and form, etc.

Anybody know what I'm talking about or where this museum is located?

[hyphenate]

1. I'm afraid not

But it definitely sounds fascinating. Have you tried to google it?

[liberalpragmatist]

2. Yeah, but I'm not sure what to search

I wish I at least knew the name of the museum or what the name of the exhibit was. Unfortunately I don't.

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. Here you go :-)

I think this is what you may be looking for:

http://www.class.uh.edu/blaffer/exhibitions/past_exhibition/2002/seeing_and_believing.html

<snip>
The exhibition includes Burson's celebrated interactive computer installations: the Age Machine, the Anomaly Machine, the Couples Machine, and her most recent, and perhaps most engaging, Human Race Machine. The machines enable viewers to scan their own faces and view digitally altered images of themselves at different ages or races, or with a disability.

[LynzM]

4. Wow. That's really cool.

Talk about a truly moving museum experience that makes you think... I'd love to visit that.

[Whoa_Nelly]

5. Me, too! Here's the website for that exhibition

http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/exhibits/burson/

Check it out~ :)

And a link to the artist:
http://www.the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=9D1E811B-BA29-D085-D5E5E0823EE04744

[liberalpragmatist]

7. THANK YOU!

So I guess it's an artist and a travelling exhibit. Neat. I'll have to remember her name and watch out for her. I'd love to try out the Human Race Machine and several of the others as well.

[LynzM]

8. Awesome, thanks for that link!!

SO much cool stuff! :bounce:

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. And here's The Human Race Machine...way cool!

http://www.nancyburson.com/human_fr.html