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diff --git a/site/content/pages/about/index.md b/site/content/pages/about/index.md index ccb6ed0d..dff3a3aa 100644 --- a/site/content/pages/about/index.md +++ b/site/content/pages/about/index.md @@ -15,26 +15,17 @@ authors: Adam Harvey {% include 'about_navigation.html' %} -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? +<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 the development and evaluation of their algorithms. Today, these datasets no longer originate in labs, but instead from family photos albums posted on Flickr, CCTV cameras on college campuses, livestreams at cafes, search engine queries for celebrities, or <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/22/16180080/transgender-youtubers-ai-facial-recognition-dataset">videos on YouTube</a>. </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. +These datasets include many public figures, politicans, athletes, and actors; but also many non-public figures: digital activists, students, and pedestrians. Some of the images were originally used with creative commons licenses, but others were taken in unconstrained scenarios without anyone's awareness or consent. During the last year hundreds of these datasets have been collected to understand how they contribute to a global data supply chain powering surveillance. -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. +MegaPixels is art and research by <a href="https://ahprojects.com">Adam Harvey</a> about publicly available facial recognition datasets that aims to unravel the stories behind these datasets. -Notes +[Mozilla[(https://mozilla.org)] has provided the funding to launch this site, research the datasets, and build tools to help you understand the role that these datasets have played in creating surveillance technolgoies. The MegaPixels site is developed by Jules LaPlace. -- 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 -- +## Team - **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. + **Adam Harvey** 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 awards, and a researcher in residence at Karlsruhe HfG. -**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. +**Jules LaPlace** 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. |