In collaboration with Daniel Suarez and scientists from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research.
Unpredictable Things explores how to protect our privacy at home by thwarting computer vision through unpredictability and diversity. The project explores invisibility and creates awareness of the need for anonymity. At the same time, it asks what it means to be visible today by highlighting the risk of ‘mass producing’ our behaviour to comply with algorithmic recognition.
Photo by Bart van Overbeeke.
Based on our initial exploration, we conceptualised a speculative scenario in which a virus could affect digital fabrication codes to make every object unique in its shape, in order to avoid being easily tracked by object recognition systems.
In a later step, together with a group of scientists from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, we explored how we could achieve randomness and constant change by letting living organisms modify the shapes and texture of everyday objects.
We conceived a scenario in which objects would be continuously co-designed by living organisms that grow in highly unpredictable socio-technical ecosystems. These ecosystems would connect the physical environmental conditions with digital variables – such as light exposure with wifi signals.
