Applied art projects about privacy, computer vision, and surveillance

News and Press

• June 2021: Economist writes about VFRAME: AI helps scour video archives for evidence of human-rights abuses
• Feb 2021: WSJ writes about VFRAME project and how AI emerges as Crucial Tool for Groups Seeking Justice for Syria War Crimes (paywall)
• Feb 2021: NYT writes about Exposing.ai project: "Here's a Way to Learn if Facial Recognition Systems Used Your Photos."
• Nov 18: Nature writes about MegaPixels project in "The ethical questions that haunt facial-recognition research"
• Oct 22: Creative Commons Summit 2020: Panel on usage of CC licensed media in face recognition datasets
• Oct 7: Facial Recognition Datasets Workshop with Disruption Lab in Berlin
• Sept 5: Tagesspiegel: „CV Dazzle“ : Mit Schminke gegen die Gesichtserkennung
• Sept 4: GalleryTalk: Laborratten Adam Harvey zeigt wie die menschliche Öffentlichtkeit zur wissenschaftlichen Wildnis wird
• Aug. 27: Face First: Researchers Gone Wild, an exhibition about image training datasets collected "in the wild" at Eigen Lab, Berlin
• June 26: MIT Technology Review on VFRAME project: Human rights activists want to use AI to help prove war crimes in court
• June 23: MegaPixels included in Künstliche Intelligenz. Die Reorganisation der Welt exhibition. Dresden 2021.
• June 16: CV Dazzle, Black Lives Matter, and Can Makeup Be an Anti-Surveillance Tool?
• March 9. New Yorker on Dressing for The Surveillance Age.
• July 13: New York Times on MegaPixels: Facial Recognition Tech Is Growing Stronger, Thanks to Your Face

Press and Events Archive

3D-printed Data Objects

3D-printed training data for VFRAME project

• Development of 3D-printed objects for use in developing training datasets to build object detection algorithms for human rights related research into monitoring conflict zones.
• WSJ: AI emerges as Crucial Tool for Groups Seeking Justice for Syria War Crimes (paywall)

Face First: Researchers Gone Wild

Datageist: Visualization of camera 6 from the now revoked Duke MTMC dataset

• An exhibition about "in the wild" training datsets used in face recognition systems

MegaPixels

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

• Financial Times: Who's using your face? The new MegaPixels.cc site launches in joint investigation with Financial Times
• CPDP Brussels: MegaPixels: Who's in Publicly Available Facial Recognition Datasets?

VFRAME

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

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

Think Privacy posters for Seoul Mediacity Biennale

Think Privacy posters for Seoul Mediacity Biennale

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