Experience A Face to Open Doors
Experience A Face to Open Doors
WHAT WILL IMMIGRATION CONTROL LOOK LIKE IN THE FUTURE?
A Face to Open Doors is an immersive experience created by award-winning artists Anagram. It invites visitors to consider the systems used to process people fleeing conflict by taking them into an imaginary future world where international movement is policed by intelligent machines.
Find out more about how Anagram created the experience and see how people have reacted to the installation.
Part of Refugees, a free season of exhibitions, new artistic commissions and immersive events taking place across IWM London and IWM North in 2020.
Developing the experience
Developing the experience
IWM invited Anagram to explore an aspect of refugee experiences that isn’t widely known or reported. Their investigations led them to current research and developments using AI and machine learning within immigration systems. A Face to Open Doors is an experience that invites personal reflection on what might happen if your face is your passport. By creating a fictional world it raises questions about ethics, efficiency and bias as technology is applied to new uses.
Susie Thornberry, Assistant Director of Public Engagement & Learning
Fictional story world
Fictional story world
A Face to Open Doors is set in a fictional world shaped by climate, economic and political chaos.
Certain groups in the UK no longer have security and the ability to live their lives without fear. Were they to escape and seek refuge elsewhere this would place them in the category of refugee
Discover more about the project on Anagram's website:
