Research and development for computer vision and privacy-enhancing technologies.
Hi, I'm a technologist based in Berlin/NYC working with computer vision systems, image datasets, facial recognition, camouflage, and privacy. This site is an archive of my ideas and work.
Recent
- July 2026 — Think Privacy commissioned by Elektron 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
- 2023 - 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
- 2023: Research publication on using synthetic data to mitigate training data shortage for ordnance detection algorithms in Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction. Also covered in Financial Times and received Award of Distinction from Ars Electronica in 2019.
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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Privacy propaganda inspired by Facebook's motivational posters (2016 - ongoing)
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Geolocation Wi-Fi spoofing to the latitudes and longitudes of Silicon Valley's elite (2016–2020)
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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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Face Recognition Datasets and the Creative Commons License Problem
How Creative Commons licenses are enabling and accelerating biometric surveillance technologies (2019–2022)