Week 5: The Face and the public: 

              Race, Secrecy, and Digital Art Practice 

A lot of new idea for me: I have understood about a face as an identity very obscurely before reading this article. A face is became a material as discourses for understanding modern society after the advent of the Internet.

The existence of ‘uncanny doppelgängers’: There are many doppelgängers in Korea. It is not related with “Nancy Burson’s Human Race Machine” that is to “move beyond differences-inequality- and arrive at sameness-equality”. Some of Koreans envy “The Beauty” and they have several plastic surgeries for transformation of their faces and bodies. For them, the Beauty is a physical trait as a symbol for the bright future. There is a kind of substantiated ‘passing’ in offline.  Their intention that is to “move beyond the ordinary and arrive at the beauty” is different with Burson’s, yet the result is the same of her work. They could transform through the plastic surgery- the certain technology- in their physical traits, however, their face become like any other face, any whatever face. By Agamben, “Be only your face. Go to the threshold. Do not remain the subject of your properties or faculties, do not stay beneath them; rather, go with them, in them, beyond them”.