OLFACTORY CATEGORIZER V.2 [Human-Machine Perception Interface]
A taxonomy of nasal architectures investigating the intersection of scent perception, algorithmic categorization, and embodied cognition. This system continuously analyzes olfactory structures against phenomenological datasets, destabilizing traditional sensory hierarchies and problematizing the boundaries between biological recognition and machine learning.
Faces that betray themselves. These morphologies capture neural microexpressions and involuntary nasal dilations that occur during deception. The categorizer isolates imperceptible twitches, autonomic responses, and nervous distortions, revealing the body’s inability to maintain coherent narrative structures under cognitive load.
Noses as durations, not forms. These specimens exist in temporal rather than spatial dimensions. The collection prioritizes becoming over being, capturing olfactory structures as stretched, warped chronologies. Each image represents a temporal smear – the nose as it exists across a spectrum of moments rather than in a fixed instance.
What remains when the subject disappears? This taxonomy examines deterritorialized olfactory structures that no longer function as human identifiers. These abstract formulations exist in the liminal space between biological recognition and algorithmic imagination – voids where sensory input becomes untethered from corporeal reference points.
Generated for machines to read. These specimens function primarily as data points for non-human interpretation. Resembling training datasets, biometric scans, and algorithmic schema, these noses interrogate the politics of recognition within computational perception frameworks. They call to the algorithm, not the human.
Who is watching whom? This collection examines the surveillance gaze through nasal architecture. These uncanny specimens appear conscious of their own observation, creating a recursive loop of perception. The images fold back on themselves, problematizing traditional power dynamics between observer and observed within digital surveillance ecosystems.