Camouflaging the body from surveillance

How does technology perceive our faces? This workshop proposes strategies for understanding how facial recognition systems work, the sexist and racist biases they incorporate, and the control mechanisms they generate. Based on the difference between recognition and identification, it will explore how artificial intelligence works, the data it is based on, and how it is applied in different continents. The workshop also includes a makeup laboratory where, instead of looking at ourselves in the mirror, we look at ourselves in the camera and the facial recognition system. We’ll learn about the perception of our faces by a technology trained to track each facial characteristic and collect information about our mood, gender, ethnicity, age and location. The workshop proposes makeup as a tool of resistance to evade this relationship of power and control by generating new faces.