Digital Doubles
About/an artwork, not a service

About

Digital Doubles is an artwork about the copies of people that are already being made — and about the forms we sign to let it happen.

01 what this is

A test that tests you back

It opens as an identity assessment. It asks what should remain of you, who it is for, how long it should last. Then it asks for a face, a voice, a body, a signature — each time politely, each time with a reason.

Every screen is built from interfaces people already pass through when a likeness is taken: sign-ins, permission sheets, captchas, liveness checks, riders nobody reads. Nothing here is invented. It is only put in order.

At the end you are given a card: a character, the other characters your answers could have been filed as, and a reading list. Then the Museum opens — the people, companies, laws and artists already deciding what a copy of a person is allowed to be.

02 your data

Nothing leaves this page

asked forwhat happens to itwhere it goessent
Cameraread frame by frame to draw the piecestays in this tab; never recorded0
Microphoneone sentence, played back and distortedheld in memory; gone when you close it0
Answersscored to choose your cardin memory only0
Emailshown back to you, then used as a namenever checked, never stored0
Movementyour cursor path, drawn on your platein memory only0
Accounts, cookies, analyticsnone exist—0
Outside requeststypefaces from Google Fonts; the hand-tracking model, only if you allow the camerafiles are fetched; nothing of yours is sent with themto fetch
on this page, right now — movements read: 0 seconds observed: 0 bytes sent: 0

This is an art project. The sign-in, the permission screen, the rider and the checks are staged. No account is created, no copy of you is made, and nobody reviews what you enter.

03 who made it

Filed like everyone else

We sat the same assessment. These are the cards it gave us — the same avatars, generated from the same engravings, and just as unlike us.

Maria [surname]

artist · interface, image, sound

[Bio — two or three lines.]

WebsiteInstagram

With: [name — role] · [name — role]

04 where it sits

Digital Doubles is developed within the Stanford Ethics & Technology Practitioner Fellowship at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society.

AI in this work. Parts of the site were built with an AI assistant; the texts and decisions are ours. No AI model reads your answers. Hand tracking runs a small model inside your browser, on your device.

Room 01 of the Artificial Everything Museum [working title]. More rooms to follow.

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