Interceptor

Severi Aaltonen

Keywords: Video installation, Scraping, Archives

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A flood of images poured in to your retina.

Interceptor displays private footage used as training material for the AI industry. The video loop is composed of photographs scraped from the Google Open Images dataset. To contrast the commercial logic of Silicon Valley tech-bros, in Interceptor, the artist takes the position of an algorithm by manually processing the Open Images archive. To be exact, circa 110.000 photographs were reviewed manually, with 7.000 photographs selected, reframed, and animated into video sequences, playing at 25 frames per second.

From a quantity, emerges a void.