Enter the Ring: Facing Amazon’s Ring of Surveillance is an immersive art installation that invites gallery-goers to experience facial recognition technology in real-time with the use of a custom-built facial recognition visualizer. Accompanying the facial recognition experience is a 12-minute video that analyses the Amazon Ring doorbell camera, debunking innocuous advertising campaigns and explaining precisely what Ring owners have gotten themselves into. A six-page, tri-fold gallery guide provides visitors with further information about Amazon Ring and facial recognition more generally. The first iteration of Enter the Ring was presented as a projection mapped installation, using GAN-generated images of suburban house facades as its backdrop. The second iteration saw the integration of the facial recogniation visualization screen into a household door.

Produced in collaboration with Evan Light, Ellouise McGeachie and Quinn MacNeil. Funded through a grant from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.