Biometric Mirror

Visitors enter a sci-fi beauty salon where an AI scans their face and reveals a mathematically 'perfect' version of themselves. But whose version of perfection is it really?

A user staring into the Biometric Mirror installation.

Biometric Mirror examines the assumptions built into facial-recognition algorithms. The experience invites visitors into a futuristic beauty salon where an AI analyses their face and generates a mathematically “perfected” version based on a dataset of assessed emotional states and attractiveness.

My Role

I collaborated with lead artist Lucy McRae and researcher Niels Wouters to design and build the software systems that brought the work to life. Together we developed a gallery-ready interactive that is equal parts seductive and unsettling.