DIY/DIWO Anti-surveillance Wearables

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Tired of the constant gaze of the digital panopticon tracking every move you make? Do you believe we should have the freedom not to be seen? In this workshop, you will learn how to use affordable and easily accessible materials to make yourself unintelligible to facial recognition systems and IR cameras. We will discuss specific strategies for exploiting vulnerabilities in these technologies and preserving your privacy, which you will apply in prototyping your own unique anti-surveillance wearable. To ensure your wearable is adversarially effective, we will use a facial recognition photo booth which will give you a “how-not-to-be-seen score.” The workshop will culminate in an anonymous group portrait. — Workshop facilitated by artists Angelina and Dann. Angelina Almukhametova (b. Kazan, Russia) is a US-based artist whose work investigates cybernetics and techno-culture through digital and analog technologies set in conversation with each other. Her works are indeterminate systems that manifest as performances, installations and sculptures which are site-responsive. Almukhametova has exhibited works and performed in Europe, US, and Iceland, and has presented her research in Switzerland, Greece, Malta, and the US. Dann Disciglio (b. 1993) is a transdisciplinary artist whose research examines how naturalism and humanism are reconfigured through the deliberate entangling of biological and computational systems. Working with trees, bees, bacteria, sensing devices, AI models, and…