Mtriage: Open Source Sousveillance
Video commissioned by the Harvard Data and Society group for the 2023 - 2024 exhibition Surveillance: From Vision to Data.
In the words of the curators,
"Forensic Architecture, an interdisciplinary research group, uses computational and spatial techniques to aid human rights investigations. The organization developed a publicly-available software suite called mtriage, which repurposes the image classification techniques long used in facial recognition and other surveillance tools. Users can bulk download media from sites like YouTube and analyze them using computer vision techniques. In this way specific objects, like tear gas canisters or tanks, can be identified and classified across thousands of videos."
Together with Lucas Gelfond, Lachlan Kermode and Matt Goerzen, I updated the code base for Mtriage (originally written in 2019), wrote the script for the video, and produced it on my laptop. We produced the video in the style of Kali Linux penetration tutorials, adapted to visual language of contemporary stock computing display preferences.
The video outlines the software's information architecture, and provides a demonstration of how users can develop search queries for bulk forensic analysis.
Edited by Lucas Gelfond and Matt Goerzen. Available for viewing at the Harvard Collection of Scientific Instruments from September 2023 to June 2024.
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