Evade Tag

Pussy RiotGallery / 10 images Over a decade ago, artist and activist Michelle Tylicki says she found herself in an open-cast coal mine, alongside a few thousand climate activists who had decided to shut the extractivist site down. It’s here, she says, where she first came across anti-surveillance make-up – otherwise known as “computer vision dazzle” or “CV dazzle”, a term coined by artist Adam Harvey in 2010 to describe camouflaging the face by obstructing the patterns facial recognition algorithms look for when attempting to recognise you. “We used the make-up tactic inside the pit,” says Tylicki. “The cops took mugshots of us when they took us off-site. Never heard from them since.” While anti-recognition tactics have existed for decades –...