Facing the Nameless

self initiated
Date March 2015
Platforms
Web
Technologies
FaceGen, Javascript
Launch project

There are more than 11,000 cases of unidentified dead in the united states alone. Issues of privacy and anonymity are widely debated these days, in the age of big data and with the spread of new technologies that allow facial recognition and tagging. How can we recognize the face of a distant celebrity distant while not knowing the name of a person living in our immediate environment? The piece focuses on 12 cases from Namus.gov and used different tools to try and better understand them.

Credits

Development: Ken Amarit, Uttam Grandhi

Showcased at

TFI interactive

Supported By

National Film Board of Canada
ARTE
created during an artist residency at Scatter

Press

Prosthetic Knowledge