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The ‘Physiognomic Fallacy:’ An Archaeology of the Photographic Identity Document
Polonyi Eszter, unpublished conference contribution

Abstract: In an era of allegedly total surveillance (Goh, Galloway), possession of a biometric identity document can still result in being denied one’s identity or being mistaken for someone else. States have been outsourcing the processes of civic management and local governance to artificial intelligence corporations with increasing intensity since the pandemic despite awareness of systematic errors committed by facial recognition software, a “coded” bias (Kantayya, Buolamwini) that risks the further effacing an already marginalized population of non-white and non-gender conforming subjects. The project this paper is based on returns to the time it first became standard practice to validate state-issued ID documents using facial analysis in Europe of the 1920s and 1930s. While at this time images derived from human heads in photographic albums, personality tests and facial atlases purportedly aimed to record personality and character, they nonetheless often instructed their readers to locate these in parts of images that remain disconnected from the head, such as hands and feet, hair, clothing or in the subject’s immediate environment. Drawing on the concept of conjectural knowledge (Ginzburg), embodiment or tact (Balazs) and the optical unconscious (Benjamin), the project seeks to locate the “physiognomic fallacy” (Gray) in early attempts at humanizing machine vision.
Keywords: History of art, critical theory, surveillance studies
Published in RUNG: 13.01.2023; Views: 863; Downloads: 0
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Animal-Battle Films and Political Agitation in early-1930s Cinema Theory
Eszter Polonyi, unpublished conference contribution

Keywords: art history, media studies, Central European avant-garde art, biology, critical theory
Published in RUNG: 11.12.2020; Views: 2305; Downloads: 0
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Gesture as practice of theory in Balázs and Benjamin
Eszter Polonyi, unpublished conference contribution

Keywords: film theory, Lebensreform movement, critical theory, Weimar cinema
Published in RUNG: 11.12.2020; Views: 2216; Downloads: 0
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An atlas of counterpublics: Michael Mandiberg re-enacts Charlie Chaplin
Eszter Polonyi, unpublished conference contribution

Keywords: transnational media studies, contemporary art, film studies, critical theory
Published in RUNG: 11.12.2020; Views: 2187; Downloads: 0
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MAST, master modul in art, science and technology : podMAST - podcasts in Art, Science and Technology
Peter Purg, Lange Teena

Abstract: podMAST is a series of open conversations among relevant voices from the crossings of Art, Science and Technology. Springing from an apparent need for (archiving and reflecting) in-depth knowledge about this timely crossover, it shall remain publicaly accessible to incite dialog with other interested practitioners and thinkers. Also it is to serve as study material for the newly developed international Master Module in Art, Science and Technology (MAST) of the project www.mastmodule.eu.
Keywords: Art, Science, Technology, discussion, conversation, podcast, practitioner, theory, practie, critical
Published in RUNG: 20.10.2020; Views: 2500; Downloads: 0
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