DFDont / An Index of Refusal ( ongoing)

Photo installation

DFDont/ An Index of Refusal is an image-based project that explores digital self-defense against non-consensual image synthesis. The work produces adversarial portraits that appear ordinary to the human eye but resist automated facial capture and manipulation.

Source image ( self-portrait) — input photograph

Biometric-style capture — standardized / “machine-readable” framing

Adversarial portrait ( DFDont output) — disrupted facial capture / manipulation