Recent 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)
Recent Essays #
Recent Press #
- Financial Times writes about VFRAME in Researchers train AI on ‘synthetic data’ to uncover Syrian war crimes
- Politiken.dk writes about face dataset research
- Artist profile in Frankfurter Allgemeine by Niklas Maak
- Economist writes about VFRAME: AI helps scour video archives for evidence of human-rights abuses
- $ WSJ writes about VFRAME project and how AI emerges as Crucial Tool for Groups Seeking Justice for Syria War Crimes (paywall)
- NYT writes about Exposing.ai project: “ Here’s a Way to Learn if Facial Recognition Systems Used Your Photos.”
Featured Research #
![VFRAME: 9N235 Detector](/docs/projects/vframe/9n235_t4t_02_0306.jpg)
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](/docs/essays/creative-commons/creative-commons-flow-chart.png)
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](/docs/essays/todays-selfie/todays-selfie.jpg)
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](/docs/projects/circular-diffusion/circular-diffusion-adam-harvey-04.jpg)
Circular Diffusion Reflections on GANs, Climate Change, and Art. Commissioned by The New Real Observatory
Archive #
![Researchers Gone Wild](/docs/projects/researchers-gone-wild/rgw-dukemtmc-c6.jpg)
Researchers Gone Wild Art exhibit and research on AI information supply chains and biometric media obtained “in the wild” (2018-21)
![Exposing.ai](/docs/projects/exposing-ai/exposing-ai.jpg)
Exposing.ai Interrogating biometric training datasets (2018-21)
![DFACE.app](/docs/projects/dface/dface_demo.jpg)
DFACE.app Automatic, private, open-source face redaction web app (2021-2022)
![Data Pools](/docs/archive/datapools/pg_012.jpg)
Data Pools Zero-click Wi-Fi geolocation services exploit with Silicon Valley CEO geolocations (2018)
![Think Privacy](/docs/archive/think-privacy/index.jpg)
Think Privacy Privacy propaganda inspired by Facebook’s motivational posters (2016)
![HyperFace](/docs/archive/hyperface/scarf_detections_960.jpg)
HyperFace Face decoy camouflage scarf (2016)
![Stealth Wear](/docs/archive/stealth-wear/stealth-wear-poster.jpg)
Stealth Wear Anti-Drone thermal signature reduction camouflage (2013)
![CV Dazzle](/docs/archive/cvdazzle/header-look-05.jpg)
CV Dazzle Camouflage against computer vision using makeup and hair styling (2010)