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? This piece I made in 2014 focuses on 12 cases from Namus.gov and uses different tools to try and better understand them.

Ziv Schneider is an artist, designer and creative technologist often working in the context of non-fiction storytelling and cultural preservation. Her work is at the intersection of documentary, volumetric photography and video games, and explores how technology can enrich visual narratives with spatialization and interaction.

She is an alum, former research fellow and and an adjunct professor at NYU ITP. Her work has been showcased internationally in festivals and museums including IDFA Doc Lab, Siggraph and Queens Museum. Residencies and fellowships include the Economist Media Lab, the NYFA fellowship for digital and electronic arts, and the Knight Foundation supported Museum Technology track at the New Museum’s NEW INC incubator.