Within computer vision and AI systems, forms of measurement turn into moral judgments. Could these judgements in turn influence our own behaviour, our vision of the world and the individuals who inhabit it?
This year the theme, Senses & Sensors, explored perception: how we perceive ourselves and the world around us. How we absorb and comprehend what we see, and how rapidly progressing technological advances expand and augment our perceptions
An art/science research instrument,offering participants the possibility to listen in on the electro-chemical messages transmitted by their bodies, in exchange for donating their personal biodata to scientific research
A new variety of capitalism is currently taking form on the African continent. States are being remade under the pressures of rapid demographic growth, conflicts over boundaries, security demands, and the offerings of multi-lateral donors and data-processing corporations. Much of this turns to enhanced forms of state surveillance that is common to societies across the globe, but the economic and institutional forms on the African continent are unusual
The objects, books, artifacts, gadgets and artworks offer a contemplation on autonomy as a disappearing modus operandi of political action, while workshops, discussions and demos focus on the devices we use every day: How do they work? What individual data traces do they capture? Where do these go, and what kind of control can one regain?
The Microbiome Security Agency investigates the future of microbiome privacy issues and prepares citizens for a future where our personal information is at risk through our biological datasets
For this work the visual anatomy of the artist’s brain is used to influence the behavior and learning of a drone. Computer code links this visual information, including the number, placement, and thickness of neurological connections in Ms. Haines’s brain, to the movement and decision-making of the drone
Twenty-five provocative artworks that explore the scientific, symbolic and strange nature of blood.
Conducted and presented as a scientific experiment TNM challenges the participants to consider the outrageous proposition of algorithmic prejudice. The responses range from fear and outrage to laughter and ridicule, and finally to the alarming realization that we are set on a path towards wide systemic prejudice ironically initiated by its victim, Turing
London Fieldworks asked avant-garde artist Gustav Metzger to sit on a chair for 20 minutes thinking of nothing. Meanwhile, readings were taken of the electrical activity taking place inside his brain. The resulting electroencephalograms were then analyzed and turned into instructions for a factory robot to drill a hole inside a bloc of stone
It might appear that London doesn’t spare much thought for art & technology. The capital doesn’t host any institution specifically dedicated to art & technology, like FACT in Liverpool. Nor does it have a media art festival with an international reputation such as FutureEverything in Manchester, or the AV Festival in the North East of England.
But look closer, and you’ll realize that there’s no reason to despair…
The Urban Immune System Research, one of the 4 Making Future Work commissions, investigates parallel futures in the emergence of the ‘smart-city’. During their research, the Institute has produced a series of speculative prototypes that combine digital technology and biometrics: one of the devices ‘functions as a social sixth sense’, a second one is a backpack mounted with 4 megaphones that shouts out geo-located tweets as you walk around, a third one attempts to make its wearer get a sense of what might it feel like to walk through a ‘data cloud’ or a ‘data meadow’
Biomedia artist Paul Vanouse’s latest work, the Suspect Inversion Center, comments on the way genetic evidence is brandished as the ultimate evidence in courtrooms. He set up an operational laboratory at the Ernst Schering Foundation in Berlin where he creates identical “genetic fingerprints” of criminals and celebrities using his own DNA
The last edition of STRP attracted almost 30,000 visitors. They came for the concerts and parties of course, but also for the performances, exhibitions, conferences, workshops and associated events that were taking place in the city of Eindhoven. The exhibition was particularly exciting with its mix of no tech and high tech
One of the installations that made me keep coming back to it over and over again last night is the Physiognomic Scrutinizer by Marnix de Nijs who, as usual, is using humour to reflect on some of the key issues of our society. In this case, the role biometric systems play in present our public space
Brendan Walker is a thrill researcher. Originally trained as an aircraft engineer, he now specializes in death-defying experiences, screams and cold sweat, using performance art to find out what people feel on fairground rides and crashing planes.
Fernando Orellana had his own brain activity registered while he was sleeping and transfered the data on a robot to determine its head positions and behaviour
What can a map of London made of urine samples and postcodes teach us about the way we will interact with each other and our environment in the near future?
Active Ingredient from Nottingham have always been trying to make “hard” technology a bit softer and to reveal […]
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Just back from Dislocate 07, a great little exhibition in two venues around Tokyo and a two-day symposium […]
I’m in London for the RCA Degree Show. It’s the biggest show ever as they gathered all the […]
Jacqueline Humbert, Brainwave Etch a Sketch, 1974. Details in Tom Moody‘s blog, via rhizome. More brain-wave activated pieces: […]
The bertillonage (also known as anthropometry, or the Bertillon system), created in the 1880’s by Alphonse Bertillon, became […]
genetec is a proposal by UK based artist Stanza, to build an articulating DNA structure telematically controlled from […]
Marc Böhlen‘s website has provided me with some amazing stories ever since i started blogging: from the Open […]
WORMS in Rotterdam has revealed last week a Biometric Barman. Sit on the chair, insert two euros, and […]
Acclair, by Luther Thie and Eyal Fried, is a security and neuromarketing service that points to Acclairism, a […]
Fujitsu is to construct a system utilizing its biometric palm vein authentication technology for Naka city’s new public […]
Hitachi has developed a finger-vein-detecting security system for use on car door handles and steering wheels. When a […]
Lufthansa and Siemens has successfully tested a biometric process for check-in and boarding at the Airport. The system […]
To protect biometric information, IBM researchers have developed a fun-house mirror-like trick to alter images so that hackers […]
Yamaha Motor has developed an imaging system that can quickly identify a person’s gender and age group. When […]
According to Professor Mark Nixon, from the University of Southampton (UK), the features of the ear could be […]
RSA Security and i-Mature are working on a technology for verifying users’ age by analyzing finger bones. One […]
West Virginia-based MD Biotech is developing an ocular scanning instrument that will allow doctors and emergency workers to […]
The Fingerprint Maze 2004, by Amy Franceschini, David Lu, and Michael Swaine, is an installation that raises awareness […]
Fingerprints scanners have a slight problem: many of them cannot tell whether they’re scanning an actual finger, silicon […]
Next spring, Hitachi-Omron Terminal Solutions will start selling ATMs equipped with a finger vein biometric identification system. They […]
Samsung SDS has developed for Korean immigration authorities smart chips that can read passports with biometric data embedded […]