Paolo Cirio & Alessandro Ludovico: Face To Facebook

In 2011, Alessandro Ludovico and Paolo Cirio stole one million Facebook profiles, filtered them with face recognition software and posted them on a custom made dating website, sorted by the characteristics of their facial expressions.

Part social experiment, part media performance, the project generated significant worldwide media coverage, eleven lawsuit threats, five death threats and letters from Facebook lawyers.

As questions continue to be raised about the use and control of facial images online, we present the archive of the Face to Facebook project for the first time in a UK gallery.