Portraits of Automated Facial Recognition: On Machinic Ways of Seeing the Face

Lila Lee-Morrison

book: Portraits of Automated Facial Recognition

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2019

Portraits of Automated Facial Recognition

On Machinic Ways of Seeing the Face

Lila Lee-Morrison

Volume 162 in the series Image

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839448465

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About this book

Through a critical perspective on visual culture studies, this book offers a unique analysis of the use of automated facial recognition algorithms as they increasingly intervene in society. The first part of this study traces the history of merging statistics and vision by reviewing the example of an early facial recognition algorithm called »eigenface«, while the second part addresses contemporary artistic interventions including the work of Thomas Ruff, Zach Blas and Trevor Paglen. This book argues for a closer look at automated facial recognition based on an understanding of its technical processes as not only embedded in historical practices of visuality, but also as redefining what it means to see and be seen in the present.

Author / Editor information

Lila Lee-Morrison, born in 1977, is a PhD student of Art History and Visual Studies at Lund University, Sweden. She has published texts on the political and cultural implications of machine vision, including the use of biometrics and drone warfare. She received a B.A. in Political Science from Hunter College, NY and an M.A. in Visual Culture from Lund University.

Reviews

»Durch die produktive Verschränkung von sozial-, medien- und kunstwissenschaftlichen Diskursen gelingt es der Autorin die Problematik der automatischen Gesichtserkennung in seiner vollen Breite, wie in seiner sozio-historischen Genese deutlich werden zu lassen.«
Florian Flömer, www.surveillance-studies.org, 29.01.2020

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Abstract Open Access Download PDF	9
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	11
Chapter 1: Introduction Open Access Download PDF	15
Part I: Aesthetics of an Algorithm
Chapter 2: Eigenface Open Access Download PDF	55
Chapter 3: Francis Galton and the Composite Portrait Open Access Download PDF	85
Chapter 4: Wittgenstein and the Composite Portrait Open Access Download PDF	101
Part II: Artistic Interventions
Chapter 5: Portraiture in the Age of AFR Open Access Download PDF	117
Chapter 6: Metaportraits: Thomas Ruff, andere Portraits Open Access Download PDF	125
Chapter 7: Faces in Excess: Zach Blas, Facial Weaponization Suite Open Access Download PDF	141
Chapter 8: An Algorithmic Ready-made: Trevor Paglen, Adversarially Evolved Hallucination and Eigenface (Even The Dead Are Not Safe) Open Access Download PDF	159
Chapter 9: Conclusion Open Access Download PDF	177
References Open Access Download PDF	187
List of Images Open Access Download PDF	195

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 198
Keywords: Technology; Image; Media Aesthetics; Visual Studies; Media Art; Photography; Media Studies

eBook

Published: November 27, 2019
ISBN: 9783839448465