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Portraits of Automated Facial Recognition On Machinic Ways of Seeing the Face Lila Lee-Morrison
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee-Morrison, Lila <p>Lila Lee-Morrison, Lunds Universitet, Schweden</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Image
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Visual Culture.
- Machine Vision.
- Facial Recognition Technology.
- Biometrics.
- Art.
- Technology.
- Image.
- Media Aesthetics.
- Visual Studies.
- Media Art.
- Photography.
- Media Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Visual Culture.
- Machine Vision.
- Facial Recognition Technology.
- Biometrics.
- Art.
- Technology.
- Image.
- Media Aesthetics.
- Visual Studies.
- Media Art.
- Photography.
- Media Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (198)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Lee-Morrison, Portraits of Automated Facial Recognition On Machinic Ways of Seeing the Face
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2019
- Language Note:
- English.
- Biography/History:
- 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.
- Summary:
- Automated facial recognition algorithms are increasingly intervening in society. This book offers a unique analysis of these algorithms from a critical visual culture studies perspective. The first part of this study examines the example of an early facial recognition algorithm called »eigenface« and traces a history of the merging of statistics and vision. The second part addresses contemporary artistic engagements with facial recognition technology in the work of Thomas Ruff, Zach Blas, and Trevor Paglen. This book argues that we must take a closer look at the technology of automated facial recognition and claims that its forms of representation are embedded with visual politics. Even more significantly, this technology is redefining what it means to see and be seen in the contemporary world.
- »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.«
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Table of Contents 5 Abstract 9 Acknowledgements 11 Chapter 1: Introduction 15 Chapter 2: Eigenface 55 Chapter 3: Francis Galton and the Composite Portrait 85 Chapter 4: Wittgenstein and the Composite Portrait 101 Chapter 5: Portraiture in the Age of AFR 117 Chapter 6: Metaportraits: Thomas Ruff, andere Portraits 125 Chapter 7: Faces in Excess: Zach Blas, Facial Weaponization Suite 141 Chapter 8: An Algorithmic Ready-made: Trevor Paglen, Adversarially Evolved Hallucination and Eigenface (Even The Dead Are Not Safe) 159 Chapter 9: Conclusion 177 References 187 List of Images 195
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-194).
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 http://www.transcript-verlag.de/open-access-bei-transcript
- ISBN:
- 9783839448465
- 3839448468
- OCLC:
- 1135569948
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