D A Z Z L E is the facelessness of the resistance, an artwork by Lauri Love and Michelle Tylicki.

Cameras proliferate as surveillance becomes ubiquitous, data is invasively collected and commodified without consent. The human face is tracked, profiled, herded. Enter D A Z Z L E, an interactive tool for the reclamation of agency. Designed to break machine-learning facial recognition models, this subversive salon experience satirises the beauty industry to reveal a critique of surveillance as a tool of capitalism and the state. Observe, frustrate and defeat realistic facial detection and recognition systems. Emerge as a certified enigma with a camoflagued look analysis report giving quantitative data that empowers you to reclaim your own.

Through a boutique salon experience, clients have their facial features detected and displayed within a closed system, learn how the technology works, then follow tips on effective methods to defeat it as they customise their camoflagued style, apply dazzling modifications and accessories, and emerge rewarded with a tailored look analysis report to certify their fabulous mystique against eight of the most commonly used detection models.

Commissioned by Disruption Network Lab (2023)
Presented during Disruption Network Lab’s conference Artivism (2023).

This artwork is available for touring.
Contact for the distribution: info@disruptionlab.org