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diff --git a/site/content/pages/about/index.md b/site/content/pages/about/index.md index d4172e81..90072b37 100644 --- a/site/content/pages/about/index.md +++ b/site/content/pages/about/index.md @@ -22,27 +22,10 @@ authors: Adam Harvey </ul> </section> -MegaPixels is an independent art and research project by Adam Harvey and Jules LaPlace that investigates the ethics, origins, and individual privacy implications of face recognition image datasets and their role in the expansion of biometric surveillance technologies. +MegaPixels is an independent art and research project by [Adam Harvey](https://ahprojects.com) and [Jules LaPlace](https://asdf.us) that investigates the ethics, origins, and individual privacy implications of face recognition image datasets and their role in the expansion of biometric surveillance technologies. MegaPixels is made possible with support from <a href="http://mozilla.org">Mozilla</a> - -<div class="flex-container team-photos-container"> - <div class="team-member"> - <h3>Adam Harvey</h3> - <p>is Berlin-based American artist and researcher. His previous projects (<a href="https://cvdazzle.com">CV Dazzle</a>, <a href="https://ahprojects.com/stealth-wear">Stealth Wear</a>, and <a href="https://github.com/adamhrv/skylift">SkyLift</a>) explore the potential for counter-surveillance as artwork. He is the founder of <a href="https://vframe.io">VFRAME</a> (visual forensics software for human rights groups) and is a currently researcher in residence at Karlsruhe HfG.</p> - <p><a href="https://ahprojects.com">ahprojects.com</a></p> - </p> - </div> - <div class="team-member"> - <h3>Jules LaPlace</h3> - <p>is an American technologist and artist also based in Berlin. He was previously the CTO of a digital agency in NYC and now also works at VFRAME, developing computer vision and data analysis software for human rights groups. Jules also builds experimental software for artists and musicians. - </p> - <p><a href="https://asdf.us/">asdf.us</a></p> - </div> -</div> - - MegaPixels is an art and research project first launched in 2017 for an [installation](https://ahprojects.com/megapixels-glassroom/) at Tactical Technology Collective's [GlassRoom](https://tacticaltech.org/pages/glass-room-london-press/) about face recognition datasets. In 2018 MegaPixels was extended to cover pedestrian analysis datasets for a [commission by Elevate Arts festival](https://esc.mur.at/de/node/2370) in Austria. Since then MegaPixels has evolved into a large-scale interrogation of hundreds of publicly-available face and person analysis datasets, the first of which launched on this site in April 2019. MegaPixels aims to provide a critical perspective on machine learning image datasets, one that might otherwise escape academia and industry funded artificial intelligence think tanks that are often supported by the same technology companies who created many of the datasets presented on this site. @@ -51,6 +34,8 @@ MegaPixels is an independent project, designed as a public resource for educator A dataset of verified geocoded citations and dataset statistics will be published in Fall 2019 along with a research paper as part of a research fellowship for [KIM (Critical Artificial Intelligence) Karlsruhe HfG](http://kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de/). + + ### Selected News and Exhibitions - July 2019: New York Times writes about MegaPixels and how "[Facial Recognition Tech Is Growing Stronger, Thanks to Your Face](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/13/technology/databases-faces-facial-recognition-technology.html)" @@ -60,23 +45,18 @@ A dataset of verified geocoded citations and dataset statistics will be publishe Read more [news](/about/news) -=== columns 3 ##### Team - Adam Harvey: Concept, research and analysis, design, computer vision - Jules LaPlace: Information and systems architecture, data management, web applications -=========== - ##### Contributing Researchers - Beth (aka Ms. Celeb) - Berit Gilma - Mathana Stender -=========== - ##### Code and Libraries - [Semantic Scholar](https://semanticscholar.org) for citation aggregation @@ -85,7 +65,6 @@ Read more [news](/about/news) - ThreeJS for 3D visualizations - PDFMiner.Six and Pandas for research paper analysis -=== end columns ##### Attribution @@ -100,8 +79,3 @@ If you use MegaPixels or any data derived from it for your work, please cite our urldate = {2019-04-18} } </pre> - - -##### Contact - -Please direct questions, comments, or feedback to [mastodon.social/@adamhrv](https://mastodon.social/@adamhrv) or contact via [https://ahprojects.com/about](https://ahprojects.com/about)
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