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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Capture
Paolo Cirio
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Credits: Florian Draussin
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Credits: Florian Draussin
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Credits: Florian Draussin
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Credits: Florian Draussin
Credits: Florian Draussin
Paolo Cirio collected 1,000 public images of police in photos taken during protests in France and processed them with Facial Recognition software. Cirio then created an online platform with a database of the resulting 4,000 faces of police officers to crowdsource their identification by name. Moreover, Cirio printed the officers’ headshots as street art posters and posted them throughout Paris to expose them also in the public space. Capture commented on the potential uses and misuses of Facial Recognition and Artificial Intelligence by questioning the asymmetry of power at play. The lack of privacy regulations of such technology eventually turned against the same authorities that urge the use of it. This provocation triggered the reactions of the French Minister of the Interior and the police unions, which forced censorship of the artwork, despite it being celebrated by the French citizens and the international press. Initially, as an activist, Cirio introduced a campaign to ban Facial Recognition technology in all of Europe. In 2021 for his campaign #BanFacialRecognitionEU, Paolo Cirio delivered a package to various European institutions containing a legal complaint with his research and petition with over 50,000 signatures supporting a ban on Facial Recognition in Europe. The European Commission replied to Cirio's complaint by acknowledging the need to legally restrict the use of Artificial Intelligence.
Links: https://paolocirio.net/work/capture, https://ban-facial-recognition.eu
Links: https://paolocirio.net/work/capture, https://ban-facial-recognition.eu
Artwork and campaign: Paolo Cirio
Research, concept, production, and writing about the project Capture and the campaign #BanFacialRecognitionEU: Paolo Cirio
This work was a co-production between Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains in Tourcoing and La Condition Publique in Roubaix, France.
For this project Paolo Cirio created partnerships with organizations that collaborated actively in the project such as La Quadrature du Net, We Sign It, Labo 148, and the European Digital Rights advocacy group (EDRi).
Other organizations supporting this project were Bits of Freedom, Digitale Freiheit, NetzPolitik, Jigsaw, Collectif OEIL, among others.
Research, concept, production, and writing about the project Capture and the campaign #BanFacialRecognitionEU: Paolo Cirio
This work was a co-production between Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains in Tourcoing and La Condition Publique in Roubaix, France.
For this project Paolo Cirio created partnerships with organizations that collaborated actively in the project such as La Quadrature du Net, We Sign It, Labo 148, and the European Digital Rights advocacy group (EDRi).
Other organizations supporting this project were Bits of Freedom, Digitale Freiheit, NetzPolitik, Jigsaw, Collectif OEIL, among others.
Paolo Cirio (IT) works with legal, economic, and cultural systems of the information society. He shows his research and intervention-based works through artifacts, photos, installations, videos, and public art. Cirio’s work embodies the contradictions, ethics, limits, and potentials inherent to the social complexity of information society through a provocative, critical, and proactive approach. Cirio has exhibited in museums and art institutions worldwide.