From the Deep State to Deep Learning: The Political Archaeology of Data from the 20th Century until Today
Course Winter Semester 2021/2022.
In/visible Subjects of AI: Ghost Work & Biometric Control in the Global South
Course Winter Semester 2020-2021
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fluter, the magazine of the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung publishes an article by our research associate Ariana Dongus on the deployment of face recognition in everyday life.
Galton’s Utopia – Data Accumulation in Biometric Capitalism
Ariana Dongus’ essay for Spheres journal #5
The High-Tech Labor Camp as Laboratory
PhD project by Ariana Dongus
How Photos of Your Kids Are Powering Surveillance Technology
The New York Times covers KIM partner Adam Harvey‘s new study of the MegaFace dataset.
New research associate: Adam Harvey
Long-time collaborator Adam Harvey has joined KIM HfG as research associate within the VW Stiftung project.
Who’s using your face? The ugly truth about facial recognition
Adam Harvey, partner and collaborator of KIM, speaks to the Financial Times on how his project MegaPixels tackles the dubious ways training data sets for facial recognition are created.
Computational Colony Capital
This machine is a biometric device that scans eyes. This machine is also a mask that hides the backside of its violent logistics and algorithms designed around its screens. In both prints, the eyes are replaced by two images: The pattern of a fingerprint, the pattern of a scanned Iris, both behind the scanner, […]