Is your face your own? AI, Facial Recognition, and the Arts

Is your face your own? AI, Facial Recognition, and the Arts
Adam Chin, Clare Garvie, Liz O’Sullivan, and Anastasia Victor
Moderated by Seth Rosenblatt
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

On July 1st SF Camerawork hosted a conversation about the current uses of facial recognition and AI in the public sphere and in criminal justice. We explored the possible futures they portend, and the role art has in helping us understand them. Cell Signals exhibiting artist Adam Chin will share his series Front and Profile, which exposes the structural racism often built into these systems. We also heard from Clare Garvie, Senior Associate at the Center for Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law; Liz O’Sullivan, technology director at anti-surveillance non-profit S.T.O.P. (Surveillance Technology Oversight Project); and Anastasia Victor, co-founder of PLACE, a non-profit research organization that explores the social and spatial implications of Extended Reality. The panel discussion was moderated by Seth Rosenblatt, editor-in-chief and founder of The Parallax, a news website focused on security and privacy.