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diff --git a/site/content/pages/about/index.md b/site/content/pages/about/index.md index ccb6ed0d..4fec0777 100644 --- a/site/content/pages/about/index.md +++ b/site/content/pages/about/index.md @@ -13,28 +13,44 @@ authors: Adam Harvey # About MegaPixels -{% include 'about_navigation.html' %} +<section class="about-menu"> +<ul> +<li><a class="current" href="/about/">About</a></li> +<li><a href="/about/press/">Press</a></li> +<li><a href="/about/credits/">Credits</a></li> +<li><a href="/about/disclaimer/">Disclaimer</a></li> +<li><a href="/about/terms/">Terms and Conditions</a></li> +<li><a href="/about/privacy/">Privacy Policy</a></li> +</ul> +</section> -MegaPixels is an art and research project by Adam Harvey about the origins and ethics of facial analysis datasets. Where do they come from? Who's included? Who created it and for what reason? +(PAGE UNDER DEVELOPMENT) -MegaPixels sets out to answer to these questions and reveal the stories behind the millions of images used to train, evaluate, and power the facial recognition surveillance algorithms used today. MegaPixels is authored by Adam Harvey, developed in collaboration with Jules LaPlace, and produced in partnership with Mozilla. +<p><div style="font-size:20px;line-height:36px">Ever since government agencies began developing face recognition in the early 1960's, datasets of face images have always been central to technological advancements. Today, these datasets no longer originate in labs, but instead from family photo albums posted on photo sharing sites, surveillance cameras on college campuses, search engine queries for celebrities, cafe livestreams, and <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/22/16180080/transgender-youtubers-ai-facial-recognition-dataset">personal videos</a> posted on YouTube. </div></p> -MegaPixels sets out to answer to these questions and reveal the stories behind the millions of images used to train, evaluate, and power the facial recognition surveillance algorithms used today. MegaPixels is authored by Adam Harvey, developed in collaboration with Jules LaPlace, and produced in partnership with Mozilla. +Collectively, facial recognition datasets are now gathered "in the wild". -Notes +<p>MegaPixels is art and research by <a href="https://ahprojects.com">Adam Harvey</a> about facial recognition datasets that unravels their histories, futures, geographies, and meanings. Throughout 2019 this site this site will publish research reports, visualizations, raw data, and interactive tools to explore how publicly available facial recognition datasets contribute to a global supply chain of biometric data that powers the global facial recognition industry.</p> -- critical but informative -- not anti-dataset -- pro-sharing, pro-public dataset -- w/o data -- not generally anti-researcher, their parent organization should have checks in place to prevent dubious dataset collection methods -- +During the last year, hundreds of these facial analysis datasets created "in the wild" have been collected to understand how they contribute to a global supply chain of biometric data that is powering the global facial recognition industry. +The MegaPixels website is produced in partnership with [Mozilla](https://mozilla.org). - **Adam Harvey** is an American artist and researcher based in Berlin. His previous projects (CV Dazzle, Stealth Wear, and SkyLift) explore the potential for countersurveillance as artwork. He is the founder of VFRAME (visual forensics software for human rights groups), the recipient of 2 PrototypeFund awards, and is currently a researcher in residence at Karlsruhe HfG studying artifical intelligence and datasets. - -**Jules LaPlace** is an American artist and technologist also based in Berlin. He was previously the CTO of a NYC digital agency and currently works at VFRAME, developing computer vision for human rights groups, and building creative software for artists. - -## Partnership - -MegaPixels is produced in partnership with **Mozilla**, a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape. The Mozilla community uses, develops, spreads and supports Mozilla products, thereby promoting exclusively free software and open standards, with only minor exceptions. The community is supported institutionally by the not-for-profit Mozilla Foundation and its tax-paying subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. +<div class="flex-container team-photos-container"> + <div class="team-member"> + <img src="https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/megapixels/v1/site/about/assets/adam-harvey-3d.jpg" /> + <h3>Adam Harvey</h3> + <p>is Berlin-based American artist and researcher. His previous projects (CV Dazzle, Stealth Wear, and SkyLift) explore the potential for countersurveillance as artwork. He is the founder of VFRAME (visual forensics software for human rights groups), the recipient of 2 PrototypeFund grants, and is a researcher in residence at Karlsruhe HfG. + <br> + <a href="https://ahprojects.com">ahprojects.com</a> + </p> + </div> + <div class="team-member"> + <img src="https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/megapixels/v1/site/about/assets/jules-laplace-3d.jpg" /> + <h3>Jules LaPlace</h3> + <p>is an American creative technologist also based in Berlin. He was previously the CTO of a digital agency in NYC and now also works at VFRAME, developing computer vision for human rights groups. Jules also builds creative software for artists and musicians. + <br> + <a href="https://asdf.us/">asdf.us</a> + </p> + </div> +</div> |