Talk description:

Facial recognition technology has allowed governments and private companies to have control of millions of faces in different countries around the world. This is dangerous because it threatens the privacy of citizens, which is why activist groups protest day after day in opposition to this form of surveillance using different technological and aesthetic resources. This talk will focus on the analysis of different discourses of protest against facial recognition: from the hairstyles and makeup of the artist Adam Harvey, through the performative actions of concealment in Hong Kong, to the feminist hoods of the Chilean social outburst of 2019, interventions that expose the configuration of political meanings that have had resonance in the social discourse of recent years.