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About This Project

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?

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.

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.

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