LookingOutwards-08

One of the talks I watched for this week’s looking outwards is Adam Harvey’s (link to his site: https://ahprojects.com/) Face Recognition and Datasets (https://vimeo.com/354276111). He is an American artist and researcher who graduated from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University and previously studied engineering and photojournalism at Pennsylvania State University. His work involves camouflage from face recognition and camouflage from thermal cameras, and he is based in Berlin. He did a wifi geolocation spoofing project and also used computer vision software for a company called Syrian Archive, to detect illegal ammunition with scannable synthetic data. Another one of his projects is MegaPixels, which uses data sets to build algorithms. One concept he discusses in his talk is “media in the wild” which means that no one knows who’s own facial information is in the data set, and who’s features may be included for facial recognition software. I found that to be interesting and mysterious to think about. Furthermore, the way that Harvey presents is powerful because he uses many visuals and graphics. His pacing is clear and spoken in simple terms for people to understand. In my presentations in the future I want to apply some of these skills of being clear and concise as well.