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Alum Trevor Paglen in NYT Article on Facial Recognition Technology

27 Jul, 2018

Alum Trevor Paglen in NYT Article on Facial Recognition Technology

Jordan Teicher's New York Times article "What Do Facial Recognition Technologies Mean for Our Privacy?" focuses on how artists are using facial recognition technologies in their works to question perception. Alum Trevor Paglen's art is featured heavily throughout this discussion.

From the article:

By showing viewers in clear, visual terms how facial recognition systems read and understand people, Mr. Paglen, Mr. Chanarin and Mr. Broomberg want to help viewers question their perceptual accuracy. They ultimately want viewers to look beyond the systems’ own veneer of anonymity and to see those systems for what they are: the products of human beings with their own distinct prejudices and preferences.

“When we’re talking about technologies like this,” Mr. Paglen said, “the main questions you should be asking at the beginning and the end of the day is ‘Whose interests do these particular technologies serve and at whose expense do they come?’”

Read the full article here.