This bulletin marks the first in a series that will explore
technology-based art and its intersection with pressing legal
issues in the fields of intellectual property and privacy law.
The first work discussed in this series is by digital artist
Paolo Cirio. His work typically invokes legal, economic, and
cultural systems at play in our contemporary information-based
society. This results in interventionist artworks that use web
platforms and interfaces, digital artifacts, photos, installations,
videos, and public art.
His most recent work, Capture, consists of a database of 4000
faces of French police officers, sourced from purportedly public
online sources. The images are then processed using facial
recognition software and posted online, on a web platform created
by the artist specifically for the purpose of crowdsourcing the
identity of the police officers.
