False Positives

photobook by Esther Hovers ; text by Sophie Wright

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Author(s)

Sophie Wright

Editor(s)

Esther Hovers

Publication

Amsterdam : Fw: Books, 2017

Scope

48 ; leporello Pages, illustrated, 35 cm.

ISBN

9789490119577

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False Positives is about intelligent surveillance systems. These are camera’s that are said to be able to detect deviant behaviour within public space. False Positives is set around the question of normative behaviour. It aims to raise this question by basing the project on eight different ‘anomalies’. These so called anomalies are sign in body-language and movement that could indicate criminal intent. It is through these anomalies the algorithms are built and cameras are able to detect deviant behaviour. The eight different anomalies were pointed out to by several intelligent surveillance experts with whom the artist collaborated for this project.

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Person as subject

Esther Hovers

Keywords

photography

Location

Cabinet 12 - 2: Fotografen

Extra themes

Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;

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