Event overview
Granular Biopolitics: Facial Recognition and Automated Governance (Professor Mark Andrejevic)
This presentation considers the link between facial recognition technology and the securitization of circulation. Building on the role played by facial recognition technology to facilitate "touchlessness" and "fricitonlessness" during the COVID-19 pandemic, it considers the ways in which forms of individual level tracking borrowed from the virtual world carry over into the built environment. New forms of "em-bordering" create sources of so-called "friction" that biometric identification and verification promise to address. The border "thickens" from an edge to an enclosure within which the machine legible face enables automated forms of response at the level of the individual. The result is that the modification of the "milieu" becomes increasingly customized, resulting in more granular forms of environmental control. The paper draws on case studies taken from the pandemic as well as more recent examples that draw on the emerging capabilities of generative AI.
Mark Andrejevic is Professor in the School of Media, Film, and Journalism at Monash University where he also serves as Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society. He writes about surveillance, digital media, and popular culture.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 7 Nov 2024 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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