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In 2016, Joy Buolamwini, a researcher with the Civic Media group at the MIT Media Lab and founder of Code4Rights, developed the Aspire Mirror. Buolamwini describes the Mirror on its website as a device that allows one to “see a reflection of [their] face based on what inspires [them] or what [they] hope to empathize with.”1 The project draws inspiration from Thing From The Future, an imagination card game that asks players to collaboratively and competitively describe objects from a range of alternative futures. The Mirror draws additional influence from futuristic machines and speculative imaginaries found in popular science fiction novels (for instance, the empathy box and mood organ in Phillip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, tales of shape shifting from the Ghanaian tale of the spider Anansi, and movies like Transformers). Buolamwini says she developed the Mirror to induce empathies that can help facilitate the spread of compassion in humanity. Another important goal

e - flux Architecture Subscribe As if Ramon Amaro Production still from Joy Buolamwini, Aspire Mirror , 2016. Becoming Digital February 2019 ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Notes 1 Joy Buolamwini, “Aspire Mirror,” ➝ . 2 Brian Potetz and Tai-Sing Lee. “Scene Statistics and 3D Surface Perception.” In Computer Vision: From Surfaces to 3D Objects , ed. Christopher W. Tyler (Boca Raton, FL: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2011): 1–24. 3 Christopher W. Tyler, Computer Vision: From Surfaces to 3D Objects (Boca Raton, FL: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2011): vii. 4 Buolamwini, “Aspire Mirror,” ➝ . 5 Ibid. 6 Frantz Fanon, Black Ski

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