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Ziv Schneider is an artist and designer working with new and emerging technologies, often in the context of non-fiction storytelling and cultural preservation. She is an alum, former research fellow and sometimes lecturer at NYU ITP. Her work has been showcased internationally in festivals and museums including IDFA Doc Lab, MIT, Sotheby's, Queens Museum, and Futurium Berlin. Residencies and fellowships include the Economist Media Lab, NYFA and Pioneer Works.



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Facing the Nameless


There are more than 11,000 cases of unidentified dead in the United States alone. Issues of privacy and anonymity are widely debated these days, in the age of big data and with the spread of new technologies that allow facial recognition and tagging. How can we recognize the face of a distant celebrity distant while not knowing the name of a person living in our immediate environment? The piece focuses on 12 cases from Namus.gov and used different tools to try and better understand them.

Experience Here

Development by Ken Amarit, Uttam Grandhi
Showcased at TFI interactive
Commisioned By National Film Board of Canada and ARTE
created during an artist residency at Scatter

Featured on Prosthetic Knowledge

the process of creating a death mask










Intro screen - choose a mask to continue

Case details with a dynamic Google street view of the place where the decedent was found

 
Image results from Google image search


Eulogy commissioned from anonymous writers