Inner self drawing machine
Qing Zhang

qzkiyoshi@gmail.com
Graduate School of Media Design
Keio UniversityJapan

Yun Suen Pai

pai@kmd.keio.ac.jp
Graduate School of Media Design
Keio University
Japan

Xiongqi Wangwangxiongqi@kmd.keio.ac.jp
Graduate School of Media Design
Keio University
Japan

Fan Xie

xfan@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
The University of TokyoJapan

George Chernyshov

chernyshov@kmd.keio.ac.jp
Graduate School of Media Design
Keio University
Japan

Jamie A Wardj.ward@gold.ac.uk
Goldsmiths University of London
United Kingdom

Yifei Huang

hyf@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
The University of TokyoJapanJing Huang

hkoukenj@gmail.com
Graduate School of Media Design
Keio UniversityJapanKai Kunze

kai@kmd.keio.ac.jp
Graduate School of Media Design
Keio UniversityJapanABSTRACT
Besides men and women, people can be neither man nor woman,
fluid identity, transgender, and agender. Not only that, in terms ofsexual orientation, besides heterosexuals, there are homosexuals,bisexuals, pansexuals, and asexuals as well. However, ignorance
and lacking empathetic understanding of those sexual minorities
make their lives harsh and suffering. For instance, in the case oftransgender people, 28% of them postponed their health care due
to discrimination, 19% of them refused medical care altogether, and
28% of them experienced verbal harassment by medical professionals, according to a 2011 national transgender discrimination survey(USA). Unluckily, we are apt to generate a basic understanding ofothers based on their gender expressions and use such irresponsible
and heuristic findings to deal with others. Thus, we decided to create an installation to at least minimize the gap for a moment when
the audience can enjoy themselves by watching the drawing performance of their idea portrait (inner-self). Regarding the AI portrait
painter, we leverage StyleGAN to generate the continuous gender
spectrum of each participant based on their facial features, in which
they can choose their ideal gender representation that reflects theirinner self the most. Then our AI portrait painter "draws" the selected "self" on the canvas. In general professional painters candetect and draw the most confident and beautiful us, on the other
hand, we tend to exaggerate our flaws and ignore our attractive
parts. When the drawing performance finishes, the audience canreceive the drawing result as a well-printed portrait simultaneously.
The printed portrait also works as a souvenir of participating in
our exhibition. Our work aims to raise an empathic understanding
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of the various sexual minorities for a more inclusive, preferable,and sustainable world.
ACM Reference Format:Qing Zhang, Fan Xie, Yifei Huang, Yun Suen Pai, George Chernyshov,Jing Huang, Xiongqi Wang, Jamie A Ward, and Kai Kunze. 2022. Inner selfdrawing machine. In Proceedings of SA ’22 Art Gallery. ACM, New York, NY,USA, 1 page. https://doi.org/10.1145/3550470.3558429