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Oct 7, 2022 : Parallel Artifacts: Luf Boat is part of the Can You See Me Now exhibition at weareaia.ch/can-you-see-me-now in Zurich until Jan 21, 2023. Two SkyLift devices (IoT microcontrollers) with 13dbi gain antennae broadcasting wireless geolocation signals acquired from the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. Photo: © !Mediengruppe Bitnik
Jevons’s Parada (Circular Diffusion) N°2-5. © Adam Harvey 2022 Jevon’s Paradox (Circular Diffusion) # GANs and generative AI enable groundbreaking new approaches to visual communication. They automate artistic production and auto-complete visual concepts, transforming low-dimensional ideas into high-resolution imagery. But they also create new concerns ranging from computational…
Datageist: Visualization of camera 6 from the now revoked Duke MTMC dataset. © Adam Harvey 2020. Researchers Gone Wild # The exhibition Researchers Gone Wild looks at the use of unconstrained and non-consensual data sources in Artificial Intelligence systems. Beginning in 2007 with the “Labeled Faces in the Wild” dataset and continuing throughout 2020, the practice of collecting images…
Exposing.ai project EXPOSING.ai # Exposing.ai is a research project about the origins and endpoints of biometric image datasets created “in the wild”. The project investigates how photos have unwittingly become part of an information supply chain powering the global biometrics industry. Research from the Exposing.ai project has been featured in the Financial Times, New York Times,…
Object detection results on the 9N235/9N210 submunition. © 2022 Adam Harvey VFRAME # For the latest results on this research visit –> https://vframe.io/9n235/ VFRAME.io (Visual Forensics and Metadata Extraction) is a computer vision toolkit designed for human rights researchers. It aims to bridge the gap between state-of-the-art artificial intelligence used in the commercial sector and make…
Face redaction demo with the DFACE app. Detection made using 1.18sm model. DFACE.app # Automatic, private, open-source face redaction web app: try it here DFACE.app DFACE uses the YOLOV5 neural network object detection framework to run face detection in a web browser so photos never leave a user’s device. It can process up to 1,000 faces per image at down to 10x10 pixels per face with…
DataPools target locations for Wi-Fi gelocation spoofing. Graphic © 2018 Anastasia Kubrak and Adam Harvey Data Pools # DataPools is a Wi-Fi geolocation spoofing project that virtually relocates your phone to the latitudes and longitudes of Silicon Valley’s elite. It includes a catalog and a SkyLift device with 12 pre-programmed locations. DataPools was produced for the Tropez summer art…
A user searches for their identity in the MegaFace dataset at Glass Room exhibition in London. Photo © Tactical Tech. MegaPixels: GlassRoom # MegaPixels is an ongoing project about machine learning image datasets. This first chapter of the project launched in London in 2017 in collaboration with Tactical Tech for the Glass Room exhibition.
© Adam Harvey Stealth Wear # Collectively, Stealth Wear is a vision for fashion that addresses the rise of surveillance, the power of those who surveil, and the growing need to exert more control over privacy. Building off previous work with CV Dazzle , camouflage from face detection, Stealth Wear continues to explore the aesthetics of privacy and the potential for fashion to challenge…
SkyLift V0.3 (2018 build) Photo ©Adam Harvey SkyLift # Made for !Mediengruppe Bitnik’s Assange Room . Developed in collaboration with Surya Mattu SkyLift is a zero-click Wi-Fi geolocation spoofing device that virtually relocates visitors to Julian Assange’s residence at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. The device was made for !Mediengruppe Bitnik’s Assange room and works by broadcasting Wi-Fi…
HyperFace by Adam Harvey for Hyphen-Labs. Model: Ashley Baccus-Clark. Photo: © Hyphen-Labs and Adam Harvey / hyphen-labs.com. 2017 HyperFace # False-face computer vision camouflage patterns designed and developed for Hyphen Labs’ NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism at Sundance Film Festival 2017. Adam Harvey x Hyphen-Labs # The HyperFace (Version 1) prototype was developed for Hyphen-Labs…
TODAY’S SELFIE IS TOMORROWS BIOMETRIC PROFILE. Think Privacy. Photo: V&A Instagram Think Privacy # Part provocation, part education, Think Privacy is an ongoing campaign to raise awareness about emerging issues in an era of exuberant data collection. The Think Privacy project officially launched at the New Museum Store in March 2016 in New York City. Several items from this collection are…
Anti-Paparazzi Clutch Prototype demonstrated by Tiam Taheri in Brooklyn 2016. Photo © Adam Harvey CamoFlash # The anti-paparazzi clutch. A high-power LED device to overexpose professional dSLR cameras with no delay. This project is a prototype and case study for wearable technology development. This project began as a conceptual prototype at NYU ITP in 2008 then developed into functional prototype…
OFF Pocket V1, 2013. © Adam Harvey OFF Pocket # The OFF Pocket is a faraday cage phone case that blocks all wireless signals (700MHz - 5GHz) from reaching your phone, shielding you from unwanted tracking or eavesdropping. It’s also an easy way to disconnect. This project started in 2011 and was successfully launched on Kickstarter in 2013. But eventually discontinued due to production costs.
NEW CV Dazzle Looks N°6, N°7. Developed for Designs for a Different Future 2020 to break convolutional neural network face recognition. © Adam Harvey 2020. CV Dazzle # CV Dazzle is a form of camouflage from computer vision created in 2010 as my masters thesis at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Unlike traditional camouflage, such as disruptive-pattern material,…
Adam Harvey Adam Harvey (US/DE) is technologist based in Berlin. His work has focused on computer vision, privacy, and surveillance technologies. Harvey earned a master’s degree at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University (2010) and a B.A. degree at Pennsylvania State University (2001) graduating with honors. He is currently the Chief Technologist at Tech 4 Tracing ,…
3D Printed Training Data Essay for Synthetic Cognition by Onassis Foundation, edited by Ilan Manouach and Anna Engelhardt. Published 2022. Book available through Onassis at https://www.onassis.org/culture/publications/chimeras-inventory-of-synthetic-cognition/ High-quality training data is an essential component in artificial intelligence systems. But often this data is either over-represented or…
Anti-Fragile Sycophants Figure 1. Prompt: “Photo of a man giving the middle finger”. Image generated with Adobe Firefly. 2024. Source: Adam Harvey on tldr.nettime.org Interacting with generative AI models and finding their failure points is part of how we learn about the digital world that envelopes society today. But as artificial intelligence is increasingly used to censor and…
Creative Commons and the Face Recognition Problem How Creative Commons Licenses are Enabling and Accelerating Biometric Surveillance Technologies # Research for OpenFuture.eu for the #AICommons project but opinions are my own. Written 2021-2022. Published May 25, 2022. %%{init: {'theme':'base'}}%% graph TD CC[(Creative Commons Images)]:::CC CC-->OpenImages[(OpenImages fa:fa-images 9M)]…
On Computer Vision Published in UMBAU: Political Bodies for HfG Karlsruhe in December 2021 Figure 1: The Fall of Icarus with human pose detection keypoints. Graphic by Adam Harvey, 2021. Based on a 3D model by Scan the World. Licensed under CC-BY-NC-4.0 . Photography has become a nineteenth-century way of looking at a twenty-first-century world. In its place emerged a new optical regime: computer…
Origins and Endpoints of Image Training Datasets Created “In the Wild” Written in 2020 and published in 2021 as part of Practicing Sovereignty , a collection of essays on “Digital Involvement in Times of Crises”. Abstract # Face recognition and biometric research are contributing to rapid growth in new biometric surveillance technologies. But many of the datasets used for these…
Today's Selfie Is Tomorrow's Biometric Profile Essay commissioned by Hartware MedienKunstVerein for the House of Mirrors exhibition . Available in book or PDF format . In Greek mythology Narcissus became transfixed and paralyzed by the beauty of his own reflection, ultimately leading to his ruin. Today a similar tragedy is occurring in the reflecting pool of social media where the allure of…
What Is a Face? Published in Fake AI by Meatspace Press 2021, edited by Frederike Kaltheuner . Graphic © Adam Harvey 2021. Based on public domain 3D model of “Fragmentary Colossal Head of a Youth” by Scan the World. Until the 20th century, faces could only be seen through the human perceptual system. As face recognition and face analysis technologies developed throughout the last…