[Commlist] PUBLIC no. 60 - Biometrics: Mediating Bodies - published

New issue - PUBLIC: Art | Culture | Ideas

BIOMETRICS: Mediating Bodies
no. 60, 296 pages
Now available

EDITORS: Aleksandra Kaminska (Assistant Professor, Université de 
Montréal) and David Grondin (Professor, Université de Montréal)

PUBLIC 60 – Biometrics: Mediating Bodies maps out some of the ways that 
bodies have been measured and identified based on biometrics ever since 
the rise of media technologies, from nineteenth century anthropometry to 
modern day computational science. From case studies and interventions 
detailing the history and politics of biometrics, to creative and 
critical applications and visualizations of the biometric body, the 
authors and artists included here work across diverse theoretical 
approaches and disciplinary traditions to engage the machine-readable 
body.

The contributions are organized around five conversations—Histories of 
Measurement; Politics and Governance; Aesthetics; Narratives and 
Experiences; and Design—that reflect the reach of biometrics today. On 
the one hand, they consider the quantified and objectified body as it 
becomes part of systems of identification and recognition, such as in 
contexts of security or surveillance. On the other, they highlight the 
new narratives, aesthetics, and experiential mediations of the body that 
surface in fields like health, cinema, media art, and curation. Along 
the way, these articles take on biometric technologies through a variety 
of questions and angles, including those of standardization and 
normalization, identification, infrastructures, verification protocols, 
and algorithmic methods, but also perspectives centred on the 
representations, renderings, imaginings, and experiences of measured and 
monitored bodies.

CONTRIBUTORS
HILARY BERGEN / RACHEL CONRAD BRACKEN / KEVIN DONNELLY / KRISTINA 
FIEDRICH / FRÉDÉRICK GARCIA / ERIN GEE / CONSTANTINE GIDARIS / DAVID 
GRONDIN / YOON CHUNG HAN / DANIEL HARLEY / LIV HAUSKEN / ROBERT HEYNEN / 
DANIEL LAFOREST / DAN LEBERG / LEA LAURA MICHELSEN / GABI SCHAFFZIN / 
RANJIT SINGH / ALANA STAITI / CAROLINE WILSON-BARNAO

REVIEWS AND CHRONICLES
IRENE ACHTERBERGH / CLINT ENNS / ADRIENNE HUARD / SHAHBAZ KHAYAMBASHI / 
MARC MAYER / INBAL NEWMAN

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