Tag: Marcus DeSieno

How does technology ‘see’ us? Inviting us to peek through the vision of a computer, these altered archival pictures make visible the visual language of recognition algorithms.

Big data. Surveillance. Privacy. These are issues that are increasingly affecting our lives. Unsurprisingly, these things have also been on many artists’ minds, including photographic artist Marcus DeSieno. In his new book, “No Man’s Land: Views from a Surveillance State,” (Daylight, 2018) DeSieno investigates surveillance culture, questioning what it means to live in a time when our actions are tracked, logged and saved.