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Animation and Racism in Facial Recognition - Luke Stark, Microsoft Research

Oct.

10

Animation and Racism in Facial Recognition - Luke Stark, Microsoft Research

by Department of Media and Communications, The University of Sydney NSW 2006

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Thu., 10 October 2019

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm AEDT

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University of Sydney

New Law School Annexe SR 440

Near cnr Russell Place and Manning Road

Sydney, NSW 2006

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Darwin’s Animoji: Histories of Animation and Racism in Facial Recognition

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Date and Time: Thursday, October 10, 3pm - 4.30pm

Location: New Law School Annexe SR 440, University of Sydney

Facial recognition systems are increasingly common components of smartphones and other consumer digital devices. These technologies enable animated video-sharing applications, such as Apple’s animoji and memoji, Facebook Messenger’s masks and filters and Samsung’s AR Emoji. Such animations serve as technical phenomena translating moments of affective and emotional expression into mediated, trackable, and socially legible forms across a variety of social media platforms.

Through technical and historical analysis of these digital artifacts, the talk will explore the ways facial recognition systems classify and categorize racial identities in human faces in relation to emotional expression. Drawing on the longer history of discredited pseudosciences such as phrenology, the paper considers the dangers of both racializing logics as part of these systems of classification, and of how social media data regarding emotional expression gathered through these systems can be used to reinforce systems of oppression and discrimination.

Luke Stark is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics (FATE) Group at Microsoft Research Montreal. His scholarship examines the history and contemporary societal impacts of AI and other digital media facilitating for social and emotional interaction. His work has been published in venues including Social Studies of Science, Media Culture and Society, History of the Human Sciences, and The International Journal of Communication. He has previously been a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Dartmouth College, a Fellow and Affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and an inaugural Fellow with the University of California Berkeley’s Center for Technology, Society, and Policy. He holds a PhD from the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, and an Honours BA and MA in History from the University of Toronto.

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