Art projects about privacy, computer vision, and surveillance

News and Press

Aug. 27, 2020: Face First, an exhibition on photography and algorithms, opens at Eigen Lab, Berlin
June 26, 2020: MIT Technology Review on VFRAME project: Human rights activists want to use AI to help prove war crimes in court
June 23, 2020: MegaPixels included in Künstliche Intelligenz. Die Reorganisation der Welt exhibition. Dresden 2021.
June 16, 2020: CV Dazzle, Black Lives Matter, and Can Makeup Be an Anti-Surveillance Tool?
March 9, 2020. New Yorker on Dressing for The Surveillance Age.
July 13, 2020: New York Times on MegaPixels: Facial Recognition Tech Is Growing Stronger, Thanks to Your Face
June 28, 2019: Research on face datasets for Munich Security Conference report
June, 2019: Financial Times, BBC, and Spiegel.de write about MegaPixels project

MegaPixels: Ethics, origins, and individual privacy implications of publicly available face recognition datasets

VFRAME: synthetic data experiments

VFRAME - awarded grant from PrototypeFund.de to develop synthetic datasets for objects from conflict zones
Read the announcement or read more on vframe.io

DataPools: Wi-Fi Geolocation Spoofing CEOs

Data Pools - Wi-Fi geolocation spoofing project in collaboration with Anastasia Kubrack at Istanbul Design Biennial, Tropez, Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Transmediale CryptoRave, Science Gallery OPEN LABS, and Bureau Europa Digital Dilemma

Think Privacy posters for Seoul Mediacity Biennale

9.6.2018 ― 11.18.2018, Seoul: New Think Privacy Posters Seoul Media Art Biennale 2018

June 20: Ohne Zustimmung an Studie teilgenommen
June 14: talk on facial recognition at AI Traps, Disruption Network Lab
June 9: ORF.at podcast on VFRAME: AI fights for human rights
June: Eyeo, talk on facial recognition datasets and future of computer vision
May 22: VFRAME receives Award of Distinction from Ars Electronica for using computer vision for human rights
April 20: MegaPixels featured in Financial Times
April – June. Maastricht, NL. DataPools with Anastasia Kubrak at Bureau Europa
March: SkyLift + DataPools on display at OPEN LABS in Dublin
April: IDA Salon on computer vision and visual forensics in Luzern
Building Archives for Evidence and Collective Resistance at Transmediale 2019
Jan 2019: CPDP 2019. MegaPixels: Who's in Publicly Available Facial Recognition Datasets?
11.16.2018 - 17.2.2018, Berlin: VFRAME - at Ars Electronica Export in Berlin
15.11.2018 - 18.11.2018, Kassel (DE): MegaPixels - Face Dataset Search at Monitoring in Kassel (DE)
Berlin: 'Anti-Drone Parka' commission for German Spy Museum, a collaboration with Acronym
22.9.2018 - 4.11.2028, Istanbul: Data Pools at Istanbul Design Biennal 2018
2.6.2018 - 2.9.2018, Berlin: Data Pools - Wi-Fi geolocation spoofing device on view at tropeztropez.de
6.9.2018, Aarhus (DK): Lecture on Minimizing Facial Surface Attack Areas at Univ. of Aarhus Shy Faces
Germany: HyperFace textile exhibited at Vitra Design Museum: Politics of Design

Berlin: Pedestrian Dataset Analysis for Nomadic Bodies show at Eigen Lab
Washington DC, July 19: Color of Surveillance Eventbrite
Prague, CZ: Think Privacy on view at DOX Datamaze
Karlsruhe, DE: SkyLift: WiFi geolocation spoofing device at ZKM Open Codes / Schloss Web Residencies Exhibition
Berlin, May 2-4: Accelerating Human Rights Investigations with Computer Vision w/ Syrian Archive @ re-publica
Berlin, May 2-4: Biometric Systems of Control w/ Matthew Stender @ re-publica
14.2.2018 - 8.4.2018, Frankfurt (DE): CV Dazzle at Frankfurter Kunstverein

London, 11.2017: MegaPixels at Glass Room, a project about facial recognition training datasets