ニューヨーク近代美術館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニューヨーク近代美術館Instagram)「Is data is the new oil? The massive quantities of information being uploaded, aggregated, and exchanged today are crucial to contemporary technologies, making it arguably one of the world’s most valuable resources. Artist Trevor Paglen traces the development of facial recognition to its military origins in “It Began as a Military Experiment,” now on view in #ArtTechMoMA. ... The artist selected ten photographs from a database of thousands of images taken of military employees in the mid-1990s used to develop Face Recognition Technology (FERET) by the US Department of Defense. Before social media, Paglen shows us, military research had begun to convert human bodies into ever-growing data sets that could power vast systems of surveillance and control. “Even if it’s not abused right now—the infrastructure basically creates the potential where someone can literally flick a switch and form a totalitarian society...” says @TrevorPaglen. “ I say, don’t build that switch in the first place.” … [Credit: Trevor Paglen. “It Began as a Military Experiment.” 2017. Ten pigmented inkjet prints. Photography Purchase Fund. © 2019 Trevor Paglen, courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York]」5月7日 1時44分