Biometrics and Opacity: A Conversation
Biometrics and Opacity: A Conversation
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生物识别技术和不透明性：对话
DOI：
10.1215/02705346-3592510
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发表时间：
2016
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0.4
通讯作者：
J. Gaboury
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作者：
Zach Blas;J. Gaboury
学者雅各布·加布里 (Jacob Gaboury) 和艺术家扎克·布拉斯 (Zach Blas) 之间的对话探讨了当代数字媒体技术对酷儿、女权主义、批判种族和残疾研究的政治项目带来的独特挑战。当被问及在监视无处不在的时代我们如何协商可见性政治时，布拉斯和加布里着眼于艺术家和批判性思想家的作品，他们提供了隐藏、模糊或以其他方式协商的世界存在的替代模式。对话重点关注布拉斯自己的工作，通过讨论他的面部武器化套件（2011-14），质疑布拉斯所说的“信息不透明”，这是一系列生物识别面具，询问我们让谁和什么对技术可见。布拉斯和加布里将面部视为谈判可见性的关键场所，他们借鉴了不同的隐藏和表演传统来构建当代可见性政治，包括墨西哥恰帕斯州萨帕塔民族解放军的行动、全球黑客组织“匿名者”的策略、面纱或头巾的政治、俄罗斯暴动小猫成员对头套的使用以及变装表演。将不透明性与隐私、隐形和安全等一些相关的关键术语进行对比，布拉斯和加布里提出，面部武器化可以作为摆脱试图控制它的压迫性逻辑的一种手段，从而将面部转变成未知的、无法识别的或不透明的。
This conversation between scholar Jacob Gaboury and artist Zach Blas explores the unique challenges posed by contemporary digital media technology to the political projects of queer, feminist, critical race, and disability studies. Asking how we might negotiate the politics of visibility in an age of pervasive surveillance, Blas and Gaboury look to the work of artists and critical thinkers who offer alternate modes of veiled, obscured, or otherwise negotiated being in the world. Focusing on Blas's own work, the conversation interrogates what Blas terms “informatic opacity” through a discussion of his Facial Weaponization Suite (2011–14), a series of biometric masks that ask who and what we make visible to technology. Looking to the face as a critical site for negotiated visibility, Blas and Gaboury draw on diverse traditions of concealment and performance to frame the contemporary politics of visibility, including the actions of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation in Chiapas, Mexico, the tactics of the global hacker group Anonymous, the politics of the veil or hijab, the use of balaclavas by Pussy Riot members based in Russia, and the performance of drag. Contrasting opacity with a number of related key terms such as privacy, invisibility, and security, Blas and Gaboury propose instead that the weaponization of the face can serve as a means to escape from the oppressive logic that attempts to control it, thus transforming the face into what is unknown, unidentified, or opaque.