What the Robot Saw (computer vision analyzing youtube videos)

Brief description

The artist has designed an online performance that is 24/7 streamed on tiwitch. An algorithm searches and captures from YouTube the least viewed videos uploaded in recent hours. Then, "using computer vision, neural networks, and other robotic ways of seeing, hearing, and understanding, the Robot constantly generates its film, algorithmically curating, editing, and titling clips according to Amazon Rekognition’s algorithm’s demographically-obsessed algorithms." The outcome is a fragmented collage of video clips and comments that reflects upon how the used computer vision products analyze scraped image feeds.

Work that the situation appears in

Title Publication Type Year Creator
What the Robot Saw Art, Online art Amy Alexander
Aesthetic characteristics
Machine P.O.V
Not machine P.O.V.

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