A bar that analyses people's face and clothes to see if they're hipster enough to enter is opening in Salford.

Conceived by 28-year-old Max Dovey, the Hipster Bar will be guarded by a computer which takes a picture of potential customers and compares it to its database of hipsters and non-hipsters.

Hopeful visitors need to register as over 90% hipster if they want to get in, which is determined by a catalogue of over 20,000 pictures on the AI machine.

Successful hipsters will be met with a free bar, and the chance to mingle with an exclusive hipster community.

And those who don't meet the computer's standards - which is about 70% of people who try to get in - are strictly denied entry.

"It tears up friendship groups, and tears up families," the London-based artist said.

"Often the dad of a family will be able to come in, and the wife and the child have to watch outside, which I'm not too happy about.

"There has been an issue of trying to get the software to recognise female hipsters – so I've had to look further for more images of women so it wasn't a very male bar."

So what's the secret of getting in?

"It turns out that the older gentleman has a very high success rate, women with glasses, and some stylish clothes basically. Glasses, the beard, the checked shirt, and if you've got a coffee cup that really helps."

The Hipster Bar has been touring since Dovey created the technology in 2015, and has become ever more discerning with who it lets in.

Dovey recalls: "I started off with 1,000 pictures of hipsters and 1,000 pictures of non-hipsters, and it was fitting you into either library.

"We're adding more and more pictures, it's getting quite hard to get into the bar.

"I used to get into the bar quite easily, and now I find it really hard. I have to wear glasses and put on a fake beard, so I have to go in disguise.

"The software is improving every time I do it, and I'm suddenly becoming this hipster mogul, a hipster data barren."

And the overall aim of the Hipster Bar? Well, it's not a money spinner - the art project wants to provoke questions about our reliance on technology.

Dovey explains: "I hope that people see how easy it is to programme a very subjective and biased piece of software, that can ascertain whether someone's a hipster or not.

"So I hope to disprove any sort of belief that we have in software or AI when you can create an AI to determine who's a hipster. I think it undermines the power of AI."

"I also hope to debunk the whole hipster mythology; if a computer can recognise a hipster then I think a hipster is definitely no longer cool."

The Hipster Bar is coming to Greater Manchester as part of the free humansbeingdigital exhibition at The Lowry in Salford. The exhibition opens to the public on Saturday November 18 and will run until Sunday February 26, 2018.

humansbeingdigital at The Lowry, Pier 8, Salford Quays, M50 3AZ / thelowry.com / Sun-Fri, 11am-5pm; Sat, 10am-5pm