Artist Sterling Crispin has a bone to pick with the facial recognition technologies used by social media companies like Facebook. Using 3D printing technology, he reverses the facial recognition process used by Facebook, taking web-based photos, and going backwards to the point where the features appear as anonymous data. The result is nothing short of disturbing and ingenious. Just as social media sites encourage us to share our most personal information and photos, the DATA-MASKS remind us that there's something else going on entirely Other behind the scenes of user-friendly technologies. What is all of this information going and what will it be used for? Crispin's DATA-MASKS are a stark reminder that this masked reality of surveillance technology should be criticized and challenged. Check them out: http://3dprint.com/27885/3d-printed-data-masks/


Below is a photo of a DATA-MASK being worn: