Research and development for computer vision and privacy-enhancing technologies.
Adam Harvey is a technologist based in Berlin/NYC working with computer vision systems, image datasets, facial recognition, camouflage, and privacy.
Current / future
- July 2026 — Think Privacy commissioned by Elektron.lu for a citywide privacy-awareness campaign in Luxembourg
- March 2026 — CV Dazzle included in Camouflage: Designed to Deceive at the International Spy Museum, Washington DC
- 2026 — Work continues at Tech 4 Tracing delivering to Ukrainian State Emergency Services (SESU): 3D printable ordnance replicas and computer vision algorithms for ordnance detection and recognition
Press
- February 2025Le MondeFace à l'intelligence artificielle, la France de la culture se rêve en ordre de bataille
- October 2021Frankfurter AllgemeineSchön unsichtbar — artist profile
- June 2021The EconomistAI helps scour video archives for evidence of human-rights abuses
- February 2021Wall Street JournalAI emerges as crucial tool for groups seeking justice for Syria war crimes
- January 2021New York TimesHere's a way to learn if facial recognition systems used your photos
Selected work
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Anti-drone thermal-signature reduction camouflage (2013)
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Camouflage against computer vision (2010–ongoing)
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Essay on generative AI, free labor, and feedback loops (2024)
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Geolocation Wi-Fi spoofing to the latitudes and longitudes of Silicon Valley's elite (2016–2020)
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Face Recognition Datasets and the Creative Commons License Problem
How Creative Commons licenses are enabling and accelerating biometric surveillance technologies (2019–2022)
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Today's Selfie Is Tomorrow's Biometric Profile
Commissioned by HMKV.de for the exhibition House of Mirrors: Artificial Intelligence as Phantasm (2022)
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Photography in the 21st century (2021)
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Art exhibit and research on AI information supply chains and biometric media obtained "in the wild" (2018–21)
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Automatic, private, open-source face redaction web app (2021–2022)
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Privacy propaganda inspired by Facebook's motivational posters (2016)
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Face decoy camouflage scarf (2016)