Ars Electronica Festival · 2022
Behind Shirley
by Ibiye Camp
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2022
“Behind Shirley” by Ibiye Camp received a Honorary Mention in the Interactive Art category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2022.
Behind Shirley deconstructs and rethinks the colonial narratives in the development of facial recognition systems, exploring how darker skin was not taken into account in film chemistry and is now ignored in facial-recognition software.
About Ibiye Camp
Ibiye Camp (GB) is an artist whose work engages with technology, trade, and material within the African Diaspora. Ibiye’s work utilizes architectural tools to create sound and video, accompanied by augmented reality and 3D objects, and highlights the biases…
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