A further experiment in attempts to answer my question, can a human exist as an object/can an object exist as a human? To exist is to be in a context and so if we reduce the human to an object and then introduce humanity back into that object, do we set up the context for this dualism to exist?

This experiment takes a mannequin head, a human as an object, and projects animated human facial features back over the top. An aspect of a virtual human gallery, where humanity is stored and tapped into when needed. Simple facial features were captured, eyes blinking, a hand scratching a nose and a mouth yawning, then masked using Heavy M projection mapping software and output to a projector. Does movement give these features an agency they don’t have when the object is just existing as an object? Does this give the object a life force? Or is the overall effect ‘weird’, evoking an otherness that is neither human or object?