MIT Media Lab’s Camera Culture group has an interesting list of projects (#vagueUnderstanding), including ones that allow cameras to see through surfaces and around corners. Ugh.
They claim a goal of “Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection”, but I smell military/espionage/law-enforcement applications.
[I wonder when the first museum of privacy will open, and where.]
Reading closed books: https://t.co/7rBdYwShSr
Seeing around corners: https://youtu.be/JWDocXPy-iQ
Albert Redo-Sanchez, from the MIT Media Lab’s Camera Culture group, spoke about terahertz imaging (same techniques as Reading Through Books) of artworks at the first Sightlines event:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUwTFaU0sqU
Also see his TEDxBeaconStreet presentation here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu-IoNHGxF8
Being realistic without donning a tin foil hat, the criminal, military, espionage, and law-enforcement applications of VISIBLE light + tech are enough to worry about already:
Eye in the Sky:
http://www.wnyc.org/story/conspiracy-theorist-radiolab-surveillance
Put a post-it note over your laptop camera:
http://www.wnyc.org/story/kevin-roose-hack-attack
On a more practical note, The CC group’s Coded Focal Stack Photography project could be really useful in our studios…
Off to get an RFID blocking wallet,
AK