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Link to his Website (MegaPixel): https://ahprojects.com/megapixels-glassroom/
Link to his Lecture: https://vimeo.com/354276111?embedded=false&source=video_title&owner=8053320
I investigated the lecture by Adam Harvey, an American artist based in Germany.
His research focuses on computer vision, privacy, and surveillance
technologies. After finishing his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering at Penn
State, Harvey then pursued a master’s in interactive telecommunications at NYU.
Adam Harvey’s current works include MegaPixel, a facial recognition software
that compares the user’s facial qualities with a database and returns a face
from the database that has the highest similarities. This project mainly
creates awareness of the normalization of databasing people’s faces without
regulation. In many of his other works, such as DFACE, a face
protestors and other individuals. This is especially important in the fast
digitalization society, with more and more algorithms that detect faces and
uploads them to further databases like MegaPixel, it would be crucial for
researchers like Adam Harvey to create apps that help protect people’s privacies.
Harvey’s strategy in his speech is in a continuous fashion, where he starts with
the previous project, explains details that lead to his current assignment, and
then starts giving an overview of his current projects. This gives the
audience a complete understanding of the process that led to the conclusion. He
also does a good job of simplifying the concept of his projects, making
it, making it easier for the audience to understand the final concept.