Dennis Delgado’s (2019-2020) The Dark Database is a series of ethereal portraits made by applying a combination of python script and facial recognition software to films directed by people of color. These images serve as a record of POC visibility through the eyes of artificial intelligence. Biased human construction of facial recognition and artificial intelligence algorithms creates a space where POC faces are continually misconstrued and misrepresented.
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(from left to right) Get Out; Deep Cover; Black Panther; Higher Learning; Training Day; Do The Right Thing; Moonlight; Empire; Pinero
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Digital America interviewed Dennis Delgado in April of 2024.
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Dennis Delgado is a Bronx-born multimedia artist interested in technologies of vision, analysis of persistent colonialist ideologies, and regimes of expansionism. He has received a BA in film studies from the University of Rochester, as well as an MFA in sculpture from the City College of New York. His work has been exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, UC Irvine, and the other.
