POI Finch: “You are being watched. The government has a secret system: a machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know, because I built it… “ …maybe the government doesn’t need the machine… you are sharing your intimacy without even knowing and anyone can access it with a 35$ machine.
Art book (2015-2016)
10,50 x 20,50 x 38cm
29 A4 80gm pages
57 13x18cm photographs
6 Folders
Shared Folder (Red box)
In the context of the digital era, found photography means images found on public websites such as the social networks, e.g. Flickr, Instagram, Google Street View, etc. In these cases, the author of the images meant for them to become accessible (even if only out of legal obligation, as it happens with surveillance footage).
As part of my Artificial Intelligence research, I created these contact sheets of the faces that the algorithm detects.
You can read more about my research
here.
You can also view the full contact sheets archive on
contacts
or
Flickr. The archive is updated every time the system finds
a sufficient number of new faces.
Note that every picture is credited. This is not the appropriation of images from the internet; it’s the re-use of freely distributed
content interpreted by an AI algorithm.
May 21, 2021
