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The animation consists of AI-processed images of recently elected Finnish Parliament members. The AI morphs them into a stream of both male and female politicians, raising questions about sex and gender identification.
The animation looks as if it was drawn by children, shifting from scary monsters and watercolour-like sketches to generic-looking white collars. Does the artwork's imagery reflect political decision-making? How do we see politicians in general?
The creative process offered a way to consider the outward criteria of gender, since the neural network did not recognise gender from the training images.