<p>CV Dazzle explores how fashion can be used as camouflage from face-detection technology, the first step in automated face recognition.</p> <p>The name is derived from a type of World War I naval camouflage called Dazzle, which used cubist-inspired designs to break apart the visual continuity of a battleship and conceal its orientation and size. Likewise, CV Dazzle uses avant-garde hairstyling and makeup designs to break apart the continuity of a face. Since facial-recognition algorithms rely on the identification and spatial relationship of key facial features, like symmetry and tonal contours, one can block detection by creating an “anti-face”.</p>
Public Work
Yorgo Alexopoulos
Sanford Biggers
Marlene Creates
For over thirty-five years her work has been an exploration of the relationship between human experience, memory, language and the land, and the impact they have on each other.