LookingOutwards-05

Facial weaponization suite is a project by Zach Blas in protest of biometric facial recognition that began with a series of 3D computer graphics generated from the biometric data of people’s faces. These graphics and the data that created them are then compounded to create “collective masks” that are too amorphous to be comprehended by facial recognition software. These masks protest things like the AI facial recognition technology that was recently developed to “detect gay people based on their facial features”, or to expose facial recognition technologies that do not recognize black people as racist. The intersection between political protest, computer science, and art is an area that I find to be really interesting, and an area that I would enjoy exploring further.

Here is a link to his website.