2023/09/03

Sam Lavigne Tries To Make Clip Of White Supremacist Getting Slugged Default For Video Processing Demos

“Could Richard Spencer getting punched in the face be the new default sample material for image and video processing demonstrations? Only time will tell.”
– American artist Sam Lavigne, on his bid to make a clip of smug white supremacist Richard Spencer getting slugged (after the 2017 Trump Inauguration) a default in video processing tests. Contemplating how Lena Forsén became a standard test image in computer vision contexts, Lavigne muses over using the Spencer clip for demos because it has “colour, motion, a human face, and embraces rather than shies away from the element of pleasure.”
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