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RACE: The Power of an Illusion

The Human Race Machine is coming to your campus. You are bringing this highly interactive technology to your campus, which will challenge your perception of race, age, and our other outward features. The Human Race Machine is an actual computer console comprised of four different programs:

• The Age Machine allows viewers to age his or her face. This program has been used for over twenty years to enable the FBI and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to help locate kidnap victims.
• The Anomaly Machine affords viewers the unsettling opportunity of seeing themselves with simulated facial anomalies.
• The Couples Machine combines photographs of men and women in varying percentages to allow couples to view their offspring, or simply to envision layered "maleness" and "femaleness" in one face.
• The Human Race Machine allows participants to see themselves with the facial characteristics of six different races mapped onto their own visage.