Essays #
- ✨ New –> Anti-Fragile Sycophants essay for Generativität book. 2025.
- Most Read –> On Computer Vision for UMBAU - HfG Karlsruhe
- Light reading –> What Is A Face for Fake AI book
- For technical savvants –> Today’s Selfie Is Tomorrow’s Biometric Profile for HMKV “House of Mirrors” Exhibition
- For academics –> Origins and Endpoints of Image Training Datasets for Weizenbaum Institute
- For AI policy advisors –> Biometric Exploitation of Creative Commons Licenses
In The News #
- Le Monde: Faced with AI, France’s cultural sector dreams of being ready for battle
- Financial Times: Researchers train AI on ‘synthetic data’ to uncover Syrian war crimes
- Politiken.dk: They call it a dirty little secret
- Frankfurter Allgemeine : Artist profile
- Economist: AI helps scour video archives for evidence of human-rights abuses
- WSJ: AI emerges as Crucial Tool for Groups Seeking Justice for Syria War Crimes
- New York Times: Here’s a Way to Learn if Facial Recognition Systems Used Your Photos."
Past Events #
- March 17, 2023: Lecture on computer vision, surveillance, and privacy at University of Michigan Ann Arbor (in person)
- March 21-22, 2023: Lecture and workshop at Carnegie Mellon University on AI, biometrics, and making art in the age of surveillance (in person)
Featured Project #
Data Pools Geolocation WiFi Spoofing to the latitudes and longitudes of Silicon Valley’s elite
Featured Essays #
Face Recognition Datasets and The Creative Commons License Problem How Creative Commons licenses are enabling and accelerating biometric surveillance technologies
Today’s Selfie Is Tomorrow’s Biometric Profile Commissioned by HMKV.de for the exhibition “House of Mirrors: Artificial Intelligence as Phantasm”
Archive #
Researchers Gone Wild Art exhibit and research on AI information supply chains and biometric media obtained “in the wild” (2018-21)
DFACE.app Automatic, private, open-source face redaction web app (2021-2022)
Think Privacy Privacy propaganda inspired by Facebook’s motivational posters (2016)
HyperFace Face decoy camouflage scarf (2016)
Stealth Wear Anti-Drone thermal signature reduction camouflage (2013)
CV Dazzle Camouflage against computer vision using makeup and hair styling (2010)