Controlled Lives
Controlled Lives
Investigates the social transformation, the change that artificial intelligence with facial biometry is bringing into our lives, a true phenomenon of transformation of our privacy and our habits.
In september 2017, two researchers at Stanford University published a research: using more than 30.000 images taken from a dating site, scientists have trained a facial recognition system to identify a person's sexual orientation from the characteristics of his or her face.
Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) gained prominence in the world’s hall of shame by claiming that bandits could be identified by physical traits. His atavistic criminal had a bowed forehead, long arms, large ears, an asymmetrical face and tattoos on body ,the method showed itself full of gaps and errors.
The Chinese state is setting up a vast ranking system that will monitor through facial recognition of population’s behaviour, and rank them all based on their "social credit.” The program is due to be fully operational by 2020, but is being piloted by millions of people already.
The intention of the photographic series is to make the viewer reflect on the ongoing world change and on the social impact that all this will bring to our lives, our relationships, our intimacy. Will we change our behavior to protect our privacy from daily surveillance? Is it the past that comes back, through new technologies, this data system will be so different from the tools used by Cesare Lombroso? we will find ourselves to be modern slaves, how we will relate with others ...... .. Facial Biometrics = Physiognomics
Investigates the social transformation, the change that artificial intelligence with facial biometry is bringing into our lives, a true phenomenon of transformation of our privacy and our habits.
In september 2017, two researchers at Stanford University published a research: using more than 30.000 images taken from a dating site, scientists have trained a facial recognition system to identify a person's sexual orientation from the characteristics of his or her face.
Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) gained prominence in the world’s hall of shame by claiming that bandits could be identified by physical traits. His atavistic criminal had a bowed forehead, long arms, large ears, an asymmetrical face and tattoos on body ,the method showed itself full of gaps and errors.
The Chinese state is setting up a vast ranking system that will monitor through facial recognition of population’s behaviour, and rank them all based on their "social credit.” The program is due to be fully operational by 2020, but is being piloted by millions of people already.
The intention of the photographic series is to make the viewer reflect on the ongoing world change and on the social impact that all this will bring to our lives, our relationships, our intimacy. Will we change our behavior to protect our privacy from daily surveillance? Is it the past that comes back, through new technologies, this data system will be so different from the tools used by Cesare Lombroso? we will find ourselves to be modern slaves, how we will relate with others ...... .. Facial Biometrics = Physiognomics