I'll Be Your Mirror

Long before the word “selfie” entered the vernacular, new media artists began to experiment with digital imaging, projecting a viewer’s own image back at them in “transforming mirrors.” I’ll Be Your Mirror includes two of artist Daniel Rozin’s celebrated mechanical mirrors. Acclaimed artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s work, Level of Confidence, tries to match the viewer’s face to the faces of 43 missing Mexican university students in a powerful and heartbreaking search for the disappeared. Los Angeles-based artist Nova Jiang uses digital imaging to pull museum visitors into the panels of a comic book. In Mimicry, Emilie Joly and Rafael Munoz create computer-generated paintings that mimic the facial expressions of the viewer.