Main entry:

Lee-Morrison, Lila, 1977- author.

Title & Author:

Portraits of Automated Facial Recognition : On Machinic Ways of Seeing the Face / Lila Lee-Morrison.

Publication:

Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2019]
©2019

Description:

1 online resource (198 pages)

Series:

Image ; 162

Restrictions:

Open Access

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194).
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Abstract -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Aesthetics of an Algorithm -- Chapter 2: Eigenface -- Chapter 3: Francis Galton and the Composite Portrait -- Chapter 4: Wittgenstein and the Composite Portrait -- Part II: Artistic Interventions -- Chapter 5: Portraiture in the Age of AFR -- Chapter 6: Metaportraits: Thomas Ruff, andere Portraits -- Chapter 7: Faces in Excess: Zach Blas, Facial Weaponization Suite -- Chapter 8: An Algorithmic Ready-made: Trevor Paglen, Adversarially Evolved Hallucination and Eigenface (Even The Dead Are Not Safe) -- Chapter 9: Conclusion -- References -- List of Images
In English.

Summary:

Through a critical perspective on visual culture studies, this book offers a unique analysis of the use of automated facial recognition algorithms as they increasingly intervene in society. The first part of this study traces the history of merging statistics and vision by reviewing the example of an early facial recognition algorithm called "eigenface", while the second part addresses contemporary artistic interventions including the work of Thomas Ruff, Zach Blas and Trevor Paglen. This book argues for a closer look at automated facial recognition based on an understanding of its technical processes as not only embedded in historical practices of visuality, but also as redefining what it means to see and be seen in the present.

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ISBN:

3839448468
9783839448465 (electronic bk.)

Subject:

Human face recognition (Computer science)
Face perception.
Portraits.
Mass media.
Communication. Mass media.
Reconnaissance faciale (Informatique)
Perception des visages.
Médias.
portraits.
mass media.
Media studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE Media Studies.
Image.
Media Aesthetics.
Media Art.
Media Studies.
Photography.
Technology.
Visual Studies.

Host item:

OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks)

Added entries:

Image Ser.