I’m excited to announce that I will be giving performances in clothes with patterns that protect a person from AI-enabled automatic surveillance. The collaboration making this possible is between Cap_able Design that is led by visionary founder Rachele Didero and acclaimed costume designer Kim Ngo.They are creating outfits for me to wear during performances to showcase the moral and aesthetic vision of using fashion “to be invisible to AI but noticable to people.”
Automatic collection of biometric data in public spaces is now wide-spread and routinely done by many corporations without consent.
Rachele Didero decided to do something about this and you may learn more in a TEDx talk she gave. She is one of Forbes Italy’s “2019 Future Leaders Under 30″and founded Cap_able Design with the groundbreaking vision of merging fashion and technology to help protect against modern privacy violations.
Cap_able Design is at the forefront of fighting the biases and injustices enabled by automatic facial recognition technology.
Kim Ngo is a costume designer and member of the Costume Designers Guild who has worked on NBC’s ‘This Is Us’, Miranda July’s ‘Kajillionaire’, and clients like the World Cup and Virgin America.
By creating fabric that prevents AI-enabled surveillance technologies from automatically identifying people in public fashion can be more than an expression. It can be a living manifesto for values like protecting personal privacy from corporations that are rapidly expanding their surveillance abilities without our knowledge or consent!
Please explore the page to learn about how Cap_able’s cutting-edge fabric technologies and Kim Ngo’s sartorial vision create functional clothing that can let anyone reclaim a human right through the clothing they wear.