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Suspicious Behavior

  • Digital Art
English / 
Three different pictures partly diagonally next to each other. They are different street shots. A different text excerpt is printed on each of the pictures, including "Mehrere verdächtige Personen bewegen".

In “Suspicious Behavior”, media artists Linda Kronman and Andreas Zingerle share a world of hidden human labor forming the basis of 'intelligent' computerized image recognition systems that interpret our actions. In an interactive tutorial for a fictitious crowdworking company, users are instructed to detect and identify suspicious behavior in recorded video footage in order to train 'smart' surveillance cameras. As part of the new, invisible crowdworker community, the pay's not good, and time is money, and so it's crucial to think quick. Participants only get a few seconds to evaluate the surveillance camera footage. How does suspicious behavior get defined? Who gets to define it? “Suspicious Behavior” points out how easily human biases get embedded in the minds of machines.

Dates

Past

Location

HAU4
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