An Aesthetics Of Disappearance

I stumbled over this anti-face-recognition project again and, post-"world’s ugliest t-shirt" from “Zero History” I enjoyed it even more:

http://ahprojects.com/blog/117

http://ahprojects.com/blog/122

http://ahprojects.com/blog/146

http://ahprojects.com/blog/146

http://ahprojects.com/blog/156

http://cvdazzle.com/

This technique can work in reverse, causing false positives and misdirected automated actions:

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/02/google-street-view-p.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/5356031/Google-Street-View-blurs-face-of-Colonel-Sanders-at-every-KFC.html

And it can use objects other than faces, operating on sensors other than 2D cameras:

http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2010/09/subverting-the-lidar-landscape.php

http://www.constructingrealities.com/?p=20

When more and more human activity is being structured and quantized to make machine processing easier, aesthetics can disrupt this.

“…the opacity of the aesthetic offers some much needed resistance to the kinds of transparency increasingly demanded…”

http://www.systemsart.org/a_lpaper.html

An “Aesthetics Of Disappearance” and of false positives…

[Via Netbehaviour]