PERP
(2024, ongoing)
Exploring the complexities of surveillance and identity in our digitally mediated world through speculative reconstruction of identities from unreadable, obscured, and fragmented images. Utilizing a speculative forensic technique with generative AI infills and extrapolations, Perp traverses the spaces between seen and unseen, known and unknown, reconstructing identities from obscured images—ranging from crime watch CCTV footage to the intimate perspectives of Ring cameras at the thresholds of personal spaces, and state-censored imagery, including the highly redacted 2016 Department of Defense release documenting detainee abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan—to reveal hybrid forms of us all. This project exposes the biases embedded in both AI training datasets and surveillance technologies, reflecting on the limitations and implications of both. The term "perpetrator" (perp) highlights the blurred lines between guilt and innocence in a surveillance-laden society. By suggesting that anyone can be labeled a "perp" in this surveilled landscape, Perp inverts the legal maxim, underscoring a shift towards an environment of suspicion where we are all guilty until proven innocent, and identities are fabricated when they cannot be found.
NYPD FACIAL IDENITIFICATION 02546 SERGEANT EDWIN COELLO
TOP SECRET//COMINT//REL TO USA, AUS //20320108 THIS INFORMATION IS DERIVED FROM FAA COLLECTION UNDER FAA COUNTERTERRORISM CERT. THIS INFORMATION IS PROVIDED FOR INTELLIGENCE PURPOSES IN AN EFFORT TO DEVELOP POTENTIAL LEADS. IT CANNOT BE USED IN AFFIDAVITS, COURT PROCEED ENS OR SUBPOENAS OR FOR OTHER LEGAL OR JUDICIAL PURPOSES
3 men walked toward a single mom's door at night. That's when they realized it was a mistake
The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) is looking for a suspect accused of smacking an employee in the face at Service Bar DC after being kicked out late Saturday night.
Rate my fit (face blurred cause I have an ugly mug, not because I’m an operator). Reddit
Opinion on the “militia” fit? Reddit
DoD file: A black strip placed by censors masks the identity of a detainee in an undated photo from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, among 198 images released in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense in Washington, DC February 5, 2016.
Police are investigating the act of “racially-aggravated criminal damage” which took place overnight at the Riviera in Boscombe precinct. The footage shows a hooded man with an aerosol can apparently spraying the front of the pub over a period of some five minutes.
DoD FIle: I-129-14 2006. A black strip placed by censors masks the identity of a detainee in an undated photo from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, among 198 images released in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense.
The North Korean women who had to escape twice.
Orlando police officer caught on camera fleeing from a traffic stop.