Tony Oursler: template/variant/friend/stranger, Lisson Gallery

The American multimedia artist Tony Oursler is well known for his fascination with the boundary between the body and technology. In his first solo exhibition at a British art gallery for five years, Oursler reveals the fruits of his long standing interest in facial recognition technology.
Lisson Gallery exhibition: template/variant/friend/stranger
In a new series of photogaphs, drawings, objects and projections at contemporary art gallery Lisson, Oursler questions how technology is able to shape the way we construct and conceive identity, and the sinister means by which our surveillance systems keep us safe.
These works highlight the uncanny way in which technology is able to perform an act seen specifically human. The Eigen faces that form one of the Tony Oursler projections are particularly unnerving as the incomplete portraits of human heads render the face a grotesque, machine-made abstraction.
Of all the new exhibitions of contemporary in London, template/variant/friend/stranger invites the viewer to not just look at technology, but examine how technology sees us through the very eyes of the machine.
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