Adam Harvey

Adam Harvey (US/DE) is an artist, engineer, and applied researcher based in Berlin. His work is focused on computer vision, privacy, and surveillance technologies. Harvey earned a master’s degree at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University (2010) and a B.A. degree at Pennsylvania State University (2001) graduating with honors.

Harvey’s research and artwork has been featured in prominent media publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Nature, New Yorker, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Washington Post, Le Monde, The Guardian, BBC, Economist, and the Financial Times; and shown at internationally acclaimed institutions and events including the V&A museum (UK), Seoul Mediacity Biennale (KR), Istanbul Design Biennale (TK), Frankfurter Kunstverien (DE), Zeppelin Museum (DE), Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (US), and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (US).

Current, Harvey works on VFRAME, a computer vision project for human rights researchers working on OSINT investigations. VFRAME received an Award of Distinction from Ars Electronica in 2019, was nominated for the EU STARTS prize in 2018, and nominated for a Beazley Design of The Year Award in 2019. The project is in active development and the latest research was presented at the 2021 Geneva International Center for Humanitarian Demining Mine Action Technology Workshop with research published in the peer-reviewed Journal Of Conventional Weapons Destruction.

Previously Harvey has worked as a research fellow at the Künstlich Intelligenz und Medienphilosophie program at Karlsruhe HfG, a digital fellow at the Weizenbaum Institut in Berlin working on exposing.ai, a Future Fellow with the 2020 Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future at Eyebeam, as part of research fellowship for the Copenhagen Business School, and as an adjunct professor at New York University and the School of Visual Arts in NYC.

Short Bio #

Adam Harvey (US/DE) is an artist and applied researcher based in Berlin focused on computer vision, privacy, and surveillance. He is a graduate of the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University (2010) and is the creator of the VFRAME.io computer vision project, Exposing.ai dataset project, and CV Dazzle computer vision camouflage concept.

Connect #

I’m based in Berlin and enjoy working with researchers, artists, designers, and inventors on topics and challenges related to data, privacy, surveillance, and computer vision.

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Selected Events and Press Archive #

press assets under contruction

2019 #

June, 2019: Financial Times, BBC, and Spiegel.de write about MegaPixels project
June 20: Ohne Zustimmung an Studie teilgenommen
June 14: talk on facial recognition at AI Traps, Disruption Network Lab
June 9: ORF.at podcast on VFRAME: AI fights for human rights
June: Eyeo, talk on facial recognition datasets and future of computer vision
May 22: VFRAME receives Award of Distinction from Ars Electronica for using computer vision for human rights
April 20: MegaPixels featured in Financial Times
April – June. Maastricht, NL. DataPools with Anastasia Kubrak at Bureau Europa
March: SkyLift + DataPools on display at OPEN LABS in Dublin
April: IDA Salon on computer vision and visual forensics in Luzern
Building Archives for Evidence and Collective Resistance at Transmediale 2019
Jan 2019: CPDP 2019. MegaPixels: Who’s in Publicly Available Facial Recognition Datasets?
11.16.2018 - 17.2.2018, Berlin: VFRAME - at Ars Electronica Export in Berlin
15.11.2018 - 18.11.2018, Kassel (DE): MegaPixels - Face Dataset Search at Monitoring in Kassel (DE)
Berlin: ‘Anti-Drone Parka’ commission for German Spy Museum, a collaboration with Acronym
22.9.2018 - 4.11.2028, Istanbul: Data Pools at Istanbul Design Biennal 2018
2.6.2018 - 2.9.2018, Berlin: Data Pools - Wi-Fi geolocation spoofing device on view at tropeztropez.de
6.9.2018, Aarhus (DK): Lecture on Minimizing Facial Surface Attack Areas at Univ. of Aarhus Shy Faces
Germany: HyperFace textile exhibited at Vitra Design Museum: Politics of Design

2018 #

Berlin: Pedestrian Dataset Analysis for Nomadic Bodies show at Eigen Lab
Washington DC, July 19: Color of Surveillance Eventbrite
Prague, CZ: Think Privacy on view at DOX Datamaze
Karlsruhe, DE: SkyLift: WiFi geolocation spoofing device at ZKM Open Codes / Schloss Web Residencies Exhibition
Berlin, May 2-4: Accelerating Human Rights Investigations with Computer Vision w/ Syrian Archive @ re-publica
Berlin, May 2-4: Biometric Systems of Control w/ Matthew Stender @ re-publica
14.2.2018 - 8.4.2018, Frankfurt (DE): CV Dazzle at Frankfurter Kunstverein

2017 #

London, 11.2017: MegaPixels at Glass Room, a project about facial recognition training datasets

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