SHENZHEN: An art exhibition exploring the impact of facial recognition technology has opened in China, offering a rare public space for reflection on increasingly pervasive surveillance by tech companies and the government.
People walk past the"Eyes of the City" exhibition as the part of a joint Hong Kong/Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture at Futian train station in Shenzhen. The New York Times reported in November that a Beijing arts centre cancelled Chinese-American artist Hung Liu's show of antiwar paintings for no clear reason though she believed it was related to Hong Kong.A man walks past the"Eyes of the City" exhibition.