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His work is focused on computer vision, privacy, and surveillance technologies. Harvey is a graduate of the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University (2010) and Pennsylvania State University (2001).</p><p>Harvey’s research and artwork has been featured in prominent media publications including the <a href=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/13/technology/databases-faces-facial-recognition-technology.html>New York Times</a>, <a href=https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-emerges-as-crucial-tool-for-groups-seeking-justice-for-syria-war-crimes-11613228401>Wall Street Journal</a>, <a href=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03187-3>Nature</a>, <a href=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/16/dressing-for-the-surveillance-age>New Yorker</a>, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Washington Post, Le Monde, The Guardian, BBC, Economist, and the <a href=https://www.ft.com/content/cf19b956-60a2-11e9-b285-3acd5d43599e>Financial Times</a>; and shown at internationally acclaimed institutions and events including the V&A museum (UK), Seoul Mediacity Biennale (KR), Istanbul Design Biennale (TK), Frankfurter Kunstverien (DE), Zeppelin Museum (DE), Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (US), and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (US).</p><p>Recently, Harvey developed <a href=https://vframe.io>VFRAME</a>, a computer vision project for human rights researchers working on OSINT investigations. VFRAME received an <a href=https://calls.ars.electronica.art/prix2019/prixwinner/34003/>Award of Distinction</a> from Ars Electronica in 2019, was nominated for the <a href=https://starts-prize.aec.at/en/vframe-visual-forensics-and-advanced-metadata-extraction/>EU STARTS</a> prize in 2018, and nominated for a <a href=https://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/beazley-designs-of-the-year/digital/vframe-visual-forensics-and-metadata-extraction>Beazley Design of The Year Award</a> in 2019. The project is in active development and the latest research was presented at the 2021 Geneva International Center for Humanitarian Demining Mine Action Technology Workshop.</p><p>Harvey has worked as a research fellow at the <a href=http://kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de/>Künstlich Intelligenz und Medienphilosophie</a> program at Karlsruhe HfG, a digital fellow at the <a href=https://weizenbaum-institut.de>Weizenbaum Institut</a> in Berlin working on <a href=https://exposing.ai>exposing.ai</a>, a Future Fellow with the 2020 Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future at Eyebeam, as part of research fellowship for the Copenhagen Business School, and as an adjunct professor at New York University and School of Visual Arts in NYC. He currently works as an academic technologist and researcher for the Karlsruhe HfG AI Forensics project.</p><h3 id=short-bio>Short Bio <a class=anchor href=#short-bio>#</a></h3><p>Adam Harvey (US/DE) is an artist and applied researcher based in Berlin focused on computer vision, privacy, and surveillance. He is a graduate of the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University (2010) and is the creator of the VFRAME.io computer vision project, Exposing.ai dataset project, and CV Dazzle computer vision camouflage concept.</p><figure><img src=/about/images/copyright-adam-harvey.jpg alt="3D scanning submunitions (FFE) for VFRAME project. © Adam Harvey 2022." width=100%><figcaption><p>3D scanning submunitions (FFE) for VFRAME project. © Adam Harvey 2022.</p></figcaption></figure><br><hr><h2 id=connect>Connect <a class=anchor href=#connect>#</a></h2><p>I’m based in Berlin and enjoy working with researchers, artists, designers, and inventors on topics and challenges related to data, privacy, surveillance, and computer vision.</p><ul><li><i class="fa fa-envelope" aria-hidden=true></i> Email: hello at harvey studio<ul><li>Tip: for fastest reply use private and secure email like <a href=https://pr.tn/ref/KCSZEGV2E470>ProtonMail</a></li><li>Insecure emails that contain tracking links or tracking pixels may be automatically deleted</li></ul></li><li><i class="fab fa-mastodon" aria-hidden=true></i> Mastodon: <a href=https://tldr.nettime.org/@adam_harvey>tldr.nettime.org/@adam_harvey</a></li><li><i class="fab fa-twitter" aria-hidden=true></i> Twitter: <a href=https://twitter.com/adamhrv>twitter.com/adamhrv</a> (less active)</li><li><i class="fab fa-github" aria-hidden=true></i> Github: <a href=https://twitter.com/adamhrv>github.com/adamhrv</a></li><li><i class="fa fa-lock" aria-hidden=true></i> Signal: contact for info</li></ul><br><hr><h2 id=selected-events-and-press-archive>Selected Events and Press Archive <a class=anchor href=#selected-events-and-press-archive>#</a></h2><h3 id=2021>2021 <a class=anchor href=#2021>#</a></h3><ul><li>June 2021: Economist writes about VFRAME: <a href=https://www.economist.com/international/2021/06/05/ai-helps-scour-video-archives-for-evidence-of-human-rights-abuses>AI helps scour video archives for evidence of human-rights abuses</a></li><li>Feb 2021: WSJ writes about <a href=https://vframe.io>VFRAME</a> project and how <a href=https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-emerges-as-crucial-tool-for-groups-seeking-justice-for-syria-war-crimes-11613228401>AI emerges as Crucial Tool for Groups Seeking Justice for Syria War Crimes</a> (paywall)</li><li>Feb 2021: NYT writes about <a href=https://exposing.ai>Exposing.ai</a> project: “ <a href=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/technology/facial-recognition-photo-tool.html>Here’s a Way to Learn if Facial Recognition Systems Used Your Photos</a>.”</li></ul><h3 id=2020>2020 <a class=anchor href=#2020>#</a></h3><ul><li>Nov 18: Nature writes about <a href=/exposing-ai>Exposing.ai</a> project in “ <a href=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03187-3>The ethical questions that haunt facial-recognition research</a>”</li><li>Oct 22: Creative Commons Summit 2020: <a href="[https://ccglobalsummit2020virtual.sched.com/event/efD8?iframe=no">Panel on usage of CC licensed media in face recognition datasets</a></li><li>Oct 7: <a href=https://www.disruptionlab.org/event/facialrecognition>Facial Recognition Datasets Workshop</a> with Disruption Lab in Berlin</li><li>Sept 5: Tagesspiegel: <a href=https://plus.tagesspiegel.de/cv-dazzle-mit-schminke-gegen-die-gesichtserkennung-41097.html>„CV Dazzle“ : Mit Schminke gegen die Gesichtserkennung</a></li><li>Sept 4: GalleryTalk: <a href=https://www.gallerytalk.net/adam-harvey-eigen-art-lab/>Laborratten Adam Harvey zeigt wie die menschliche Öffentlichtkeit zur wissenschaftlichen Wildnis wird</a></li><li>Aug. 27: <em><a href=/researchers-gone-wild>Face First: Researchers Gone Wild</a></em>, an exhibition about image training datasets collected “in the wild” at Eigen Lab, Berlin</li><li>June 26: MIT Technology Review on <a href=/vframe>VFRAME</a> project: <a href=https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/25/1004466/ai-could-help-human-rights-activists-prove-war-crimes/>Human rights activists want to use AI to help prove war crimes in court</a></li><li>June 23: MegaPixels included in <a href=https://www.kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de/de/projekte/bild_und_raum/detail/kuenstliche_intelligenz_die_reorganisation_der_welt.html>Künstliche Intelligenz. Die Reorganisation der Welt</a> exhibition. Dresden 2021.</li><li>June 16: CV Dazzle, Black Lives Matter, and <a href=https://www.vogue.com/article/anti-surveillance-makeup-cv-dazzle-protest>Can Makeup Be an Anti-Surveillance Tool?</a></li><li>March 9. New Yorker on <a href=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/16/dressing-for-the-surveillance-age>Dressing for The Surveillance Age</a>.</li><li>July 13: New York Times on MegaPixels: <a href=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/13/technology/databases-faces-facial-recognition-technology.html>Facial Recognition Tech Is Growing Stronger, Thanks to Your Face</a></li></ul><h3 id=2019>2019 <a class=anchor href=#2019>#</a></h3><ul><li>June, 2019: <a href=https://www.ft.com/content/7d3e0d6a-87a0-11e9-a028-86cea8523dc2>Financial Times</a>, <a href=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48555149>BBC</a>, and <a href=https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/microsoft-gesichtserkennung-datenbank-mit-zehn-millionen-fotos-geloescht-a-1271221.html>Spiegel.de</a> write about MegaPixels project</li><li>June 20: <a href=https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/informationspflicht-und-datenschutz-unwissend-an-wissenschaftlicher-studie-teilgenommen>Ohne Zustimmung an Studie teilgenommen</a></li><li>June 14: talk on facial recognition at <a href=https://www.disruptionlab.org/>AI Traps, Disruption Network Lab</a></li><li>June 9: ORF.at podcast on VFRAME: <a href=https://oe1.orf.at/player/20190619/556624>AI fights for human rights</a></li><li>June: Eyeo, <a href=http://eyeofestival.com/speaker/adam-harvey/>talk on facial recognition datasets and future of computer vision</a></li><li>May 22: VFRAME receives <a href=https://calls.ars.electronica.art/prix2019/prixwinner/34003/>Award of Distinction</a> from Ars Electronica for using computer vision for human rights</li><li>April 20: MegaPixels featured in <a href=https://www.ft.com/content/cf19b956-60a2-11e9-b285-3acd5d43599e>Financial Times</a></li><li>April – June. Maastricht, NL. <a href=/datapools>DataPools</a> with Anastasia Kubrak at <a href=https://www.bureau-europa.nl/en/manifestations/digital_dilemma_the_architecture_of_trust/>Bureau Europa</a></li><li>March: <a href=/datapools>SkyLift + DataPools</a> on display at <a href=https://dublin.sciencegallery.com/events/2019/03/launchpartyopenlabs>OPEN LABS</a> in Dublin</li><li>April: <a href=https://www.hslu.ch/de-ch/design-kunst/>IDA Salon</a> on computer vision and visual forensics in Luzern</li><li><a href=https://2019.transmediale.de/content/building-archives-for-evidence-and-collective-resistance>Building Archives for Evidence and Collective Resistance</a> at Transmediale 2019</li><li>Jan 2019: CPDP 2019. <a href=https://www.cpdpconferences.org/events/megapixels-is-in-publicly-available-facial-recognition-datasets>MegaPixels: Who’s in Publicly Available Facial Recognition Datasets?</a></li><li>11.16.2018 - 17.2.2018, Berlin: <a href=/vframe>VFRAME</a> - at Ars Electronica Export in Berlin</li><li>15.11.2018 - 18.11.2018, Kassel (DE): <a href=/megapixels-glassroom>MegaPixels</a> - Face Dataset Search at Monitoring in Kassel (DE)</li><li>Berlin: ‘Anti-Drone Parka’ commission for <a href=https://www.deutsches-spionagemuseum.de/en/>German Spy Museum</a>, a collaboration with <a href=https://acrnm.com/>Acronym</a></li><li>22.9.2018 - 4.11.2028, Istanbul: <a href=/datapools>Data Pools</a> at <a href=http://aschoolofschools.iksv.org/>Istanbul Design Biennal 2018</a></li><li>2.6.2018 - 2.9.2018, Berlin: <a href=/datapools>Data Pools</a> - Wi-Fi geolocation spoofing device on view at <a href=https://tropeztropez.de>tropeztropez.de</a></li><li>6.9.2018, Aarhus (DK): Lecture on Minimizing Facial Surface Attack Areas at Univ. of Aarhus <a href=https://cc.au.dk/en/research/research-programmes/contemporary-aesthetics-and-technology/events/show/artikel/shy-faces-digital-subjects-and-acts-of-disappearing/>Shy Faces</a></li><li>Germany: HyperFace textile exhibited at <a href=https://www.design-museum.de/en/exhibitions/preview.html>Vitra Design Museum: Politics of Design</a></li></ul><h3 id=2018>2018 <a class=anchor href=#2018>#</a></h3><ul><li>Berlin: Pedestrian Dataset Analysis for <em>Nomadic Bodies</em> show at <a href=http://eigen-art-lab.com>Eigen Lab</a></li><li>Washington DC, July 19: Color of Surveillance <a href=https://www.eventbrite.com/e/color-of-surveillance-government-monitoring-of-religious-minorities-tickets-44923937707>Eventbrite</a></li><li>Prague, CZ: Think Privacy on view at <a href=https://www.dox.cz/en/exhibitions/datamaze>DOX Datamaze</a></li><li>Karlsruhe, DE: SkyLift: WiFi geolocation spoofing device at <a href=https://open-codes.zkm.de/en>ZKM Open Codes / Schloss Web Residencies Exhibition</a></li><li>Berlin, May 2-4: Accelerating Human Rights Investigations with Computer Vision w/ Syrian Archive @ <a href=https://18.re-publica.com/en>re-publica</a></li><li>Berlin, May 2-4: Biometric Systems of Control w/ Matthew Stender @ <a href=https://18.re-publica.com/en>re-publica</a></li><li>14.2.2018 - 8.4.2018, Frankfurt (DE): CV Dazzle at <a href=https://www.fkv.de/de/content/i-am-here-to-learn-zur-maschinellen-interpretation-der-welt>Frankfurter Kunstverein</a></li></ul><h3 id=2017>2017 <a class=anchor href=#2017>#</a></h3><ul><li>London, 11.2017: <a href=/megapixels-glassroom>MegaPixels</a> at <a href=https://theglassroom.org>Glass Room</a>, a project about facial recognition training datasets</li></ul><h3 id=about-this-site>About this site <a class=anchor href=#about-this-site>#</a></h3><p>This site is designed to be privacy-friendly and does not use any 3rd party analytics to track visits, nor any 3rd party dependencies that compromise privacy or share data. 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