Jerel Johnson

ANTI-FACE: a wearable facial recognition destablizer is a speculative design response to the increasing use of facial recognition algorithms in our culture. Anti-Face explores the use of algorithms to defuse another algorithmic system. If a database of faces exists for comparison, how might we also take advantage of such a system to create recombinant shifting image identities?

We use an anti-face program to scramble or thwart the recognition algorithms at the input layer. This approach requires those who wish to use it to wear additional hardware but, finally, that hardware has become extremely lightweight.

The terrain of facial recognition is one where a politics of algorithms is most apparent—biometric algorithms embody normative conceptions of identity particularly as they are expressed in physical features.

This project was completed over a weekend workshop. It needs more polish.

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