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The Whitney Museum of American Art lobby exhibit, Profiling, uses surveillance technology to characterize the rockstar potential of museum patrons and displays these findings on a large screen.

Fellow patrons were quickly identified as paranoid, chosen, indifferent... However, the system failed to identify me at all.

Finally, it zeroed in on me stating: enigmatic.

So, I turned to the camera and started making monkey faces. As I left the exhibition, it dubbed me: unimpressed.

Image from: Whitney