[P2P-F] Fwd: Legal updates, Award, Exhibitions & More – The Face to Facebook Newsletter

Fri Sep 9 14:29:17 CEST 2011

Hi Kevin, perhaps you could mention this on our blog?

Michel

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From: Paolo Cirio <info at paolocirio.net>
Date: Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:39 AM
Subject: Legal updates, Award, Exhibitions & More – The Face to Facebook
Newsletter
To: michelsub2004 at gmail.com

Press Release,
September 7th, 2011. Linz.

*Face to Facebook*
http://www.face-to-facebook.net<http://t.ymlp188.com/eaaaueubavauqyagajjs/click.php>
Stealing 1 million Facebook profiles, filtering them with face-recognition
software and posting them without user authorization on a custom-made dating
website, sorted by the characteristics of their facial expressions.
A project by Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico.

*The awesome news:*
The Face to Facebook project won a prestigious Award of Distinction at Prix
Ars Electronica 2011 in the "Interactive Art" category. Furthermore the work
was also on display in the related Cyberarts 2011 exhibition, which took
place at the OK Centrum, in Linz (Austria).

Face to Facebook presentation, September 5, Prix Ars Electronica Forum 2011:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZKW0ArCmmk<http://t.ymlp188.com/maraueubakauqyacajjs/click.php>

Face to Facebook installation, "Cyberarts 2011" exhibition, OK Center:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_ars.php<http://t.ymlp188.com/janaueubavauqyazajjs/click.php>
*

Legal update (new downloadable files):*
We have published the entire legal correspondence between our lawyer and
Facebook's legal team so far:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/legal.php<http://t.ymlp188.com/baaaueubapauqyazajjs/click.php>
September 5th is our response to the allegations contained in Facebook's
letter of April 7th. Our lawyer answered all their questions precisely,
pointing out Facebook's vulnerability (the website did not have any
anti-scraping protection for years), the inconsistency of the accusations of
criminal violations (we didn't break security measures) and our right to
document our art project on the website face-to-facebook.net.

The letter ends: "Moreover, given the recent controversy and questions
regarding the legality of Facebook's own "facial recognition" software
("Facebook 'Face Recognition' Feature Draws Privacy Scrutiny", Bloomberg
News, July 8 2011), we are surprised that Facebook would continue to
aggressively pursue a nonprofit conceptual art project that illustrated the
risks of sharing data on social networking websites and wrapped up long
ago."

*The social experiment (new documents):*
We published the personal reactions that we have received so far. The
anonymous reactions were obtained through contact forms on the
lovely-faces.com and face-to-facebook.net websites. They included responses
from a variety of people; some upset, some confused and some very
enthusiastic. Check them out here:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/social_experiment.php<http://t.ymlp188.com/haaaueubacauqyanajjs/click.php>

*The Global Mass Media Hack Performance (new downloadable files):*
The almost overwhelming press reactions have been archived in the form of
screenshots. The whole archive of over one thousand global media reviews
(still yet to be completed) can be downloaded from:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1527685/face-to-facebook/f2f_press_coverage_screenshots.zip<http://t.ymlp188.com/walaueubacauqyavajjs/click.php>

*Exhibitions and lectures:*
In the next months we have the following lectures scheduled:
* 28 September, Rewire Conference, lecture, Liverpool - UK
* 13 October, Unsound Festival, lecture, Krakow - Poland
* 5-9 December, Psychoeconomy!, lecture, Seville, Spain

In the last few months Face to Facebook was included in seven exhibitions
and we made ten presentations around Europe and beyond. Here are some of the
installation pictures:

* Origin at Ars Electronica Festival 2011 in Linz:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_ars.php
<http://t.ymlp188.com/janaueubavauqyazajjs/click.php>
* REALITYFLOWHACKED at Aksioma Project Space in Ljubljana:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_lub.php<http://t.ymlp188.com/qanaueubakauqyakajjs/click.php>

* ENTER | DATAPOLIS at 5th Art|tech Biennale in Prague:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_enter.php<http://t.ymlp188.com/yafaueubakauqyakajjs/click.php>

* Chilling Effects at Tetem in Enschede:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_tetem.php<http://t.ymlp188.com/usaraueubaiauqyazajjs/click.php>

* File PAI Festival 2011 in Sao Paulo:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_file.php<http://t.ymlp188.com/uuaoaueubacauqyafajjs/click.php>

* Data cuerpos y retratos compartidos at De Centro Fundación Telefónica in
Lima:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_lima.php<http://t.ymlp188.com/ueataueubaoauqyanajjs/click.php>

* RESPONSE:ABILITY at Transmediale Festival 2011 in Berlin:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_tm.php<http://t.ymlp188.com/umaiaueubapauqyarajjs/click.php>

Thanks for your attention.
Paolo and Alessandro.

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