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Record Nr.

UNISA996328033803316

Autore

Lee-Morrison Lila <1977->

Titolo

Portraits of automated facial recognition : on machinic ways of seeing the face / / Lila Lee-Morrison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, 2019

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

3-8394-4846-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198)

Collana

Image ; 162

Disciplina

006.3/7

Soggetti

Face perception

Human face recognition (Computer science)

Portraits

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-194).

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.«  Florian Flömer, www.surveillance-studies.org, 29.01.2020