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William Betts| Artwell

William Betts| Artwell Betts’ cleverly shuffles the notion of the viewer’s gaze. The artist uses surveillance footage and photographic images taken as a distant observer with a long lens. Captivated by the structural components of images, he re-contextualizes them through enhancing pixel components, digital artifacts and simplified colors; then, the artist programs a CNC (Computerized…

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newyorker: Meet the “super-recognizers” of London’s police force. They never forget a face, even if it’s from a blurry, grainy, low-resolution CCTV footage, or a mug shot that they saw years ago. And they’re solving crimes with this ability. Read more about them here.