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1. Ring Camera Pandemic Log

   The Ring™ Camera Pandemic Log is an experiment in speculative surveillance, imagining what Amazon's smart doorbell cams see during the novel coronavirus lockdown, from the camera's glitchy perspective.

   Mark Sample - 25.06.2020 - 21:59

2. The Singularity

   The Singularity is a web-based AI narrative system that demonstrates the ethical issues, hidden biases and misbehavior of emerging technologies such as machine learning, face tracking and big data. The system tracks users' eye positions through a webcam, and continuously feeds users directly into their eyes with infinite Reddit posts containing the latest progress in AI along with random news and ads. By visualizing eye trajectories over time, it suggests possible misuses and dangers of all-pervasive data tracking. The near-invisible operations underpinning the technologies could bring visible and fundamental changes to the society, leading the world to a "technological singularity" in which technology governs all aspects of human society. This work consists of three sub-systems:
    

   Rebekka Ruud Rostrup - 02.09.2020 - 17:45

3. Room #3, from The Offline Website Project

   Nothing captures the experience of 2020's pandemic like making a video conference call. Be it for work or personal reasons, most of us opened our domestic life to the online world via these platforms; Zoom probably rising to the top of the list. Personal space became public in our desire or requirement to connect, and these platforms became a new room in most of our homes. This piece, Room #3, engages these ideas by presenting a peculiar Zoom call by me and a set of copies of myself to question these kinds of connections: always alone in the physical space, but always connected in unexpected ways to a multitude of known interlocutors and unknown human and non-human agents.

   Alex Saum - 18.09.2020 - 21:15

4. The Lips Are Different

   The Lips are Different  is about the Canadian citizen Suaad Hagi Mohamud — born in Somalia — who was accused of not being a Canadian citizen when she tried to return to Canada from Kenya in 2009. The work links over-surveillance, racial discrimination, photography, media representation and issues of identity. It comprises real-time video written in Jitter; improvised music based on a comprovisation score and both performed text and screened text.

   An article about the piece Creative Collaboration, Racial Discrimination and Surveillance in The Lips are Different  containing the piece itself can be found here.

    

   Hazel Smith - 20.03.2021 - 08:28