With painted faces, artists fight facial recognition tech

Artists Rowlands (left) and Hart are two of the four founders of the Dazzle Club, founded last year to provoke discussion about the growing using of facial recognition technology. — AP

LONDON: As night falls in London, Georgina Rowlands and Anna Hart start applying makeup. Instead of lipstick and eyeliner, they’re covering their faces with geometric shapes.

Rowlands has long narrow blue triangles and thin white rectangles criss-crossing her face. Hart has a collection of red, orange and white angular shapes on hers.