Capture

Paolo Cirio's “Capture” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2021, category Artificial Life & Intelligence. Paolo Cirio has 2 more works in this atlas.

Paolo Cirio collected 1,000 public images of police in photos taken during protests in France and processed them with Facial Recognition software. Cirio then created an online platform with a database of the resulting 4,000 faces of police officers to crowdsource their identification by name.

About Paolo Cirio

Paolo Cirio (IT) works with legal, economic, and cultural systems of the information society. He shows his research and intervention-based works through artifacts, photos, installations, videos, and public art.

Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.

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