Upcoming and Current Events #
- Until February 22, 2025 in Los Angeles: Oxy Arts exhibits DukeMTMC DataGeist https://oxyarts.oxy.edu/exhibitions/invisibility-powers-perils from the Researcher’s Gone Wild series
Essays #
- 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 Research #
VFRAME: 9N235 Detector High-performance submunition detector developed using VFRAME’s synthetic data rendering engine
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”
Featured Artwork #
Circular Diffusion Reflections on GANs, Climate Change, and Art. Commissioned by The New Real Observatory
Archive #
Researchers Gone Wild Art exhibit and research on AI information supply chains and biometric media obtained “in the wild” (2018-21)
Exposing.ai Interrogating biometric training datasets (2018-21)
DFACE.app Automatic, private, open-source face redaction web app (2021-2022)
Data Pools Zero-click Wi-Fi geolocation services exploit with Silicon Valley CEO geolocations (2018)
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)