EchoChamber
2024
Annabel Kajetski
Immersive video installation 300cm x 700 cm
Duration: 00:05:38 ,Language: English, Swedish, English subtitles
Recycled mirrors, HD video projection, Real-time, digitally processed video feed
Picture from the Kuvan Kevät exhibition by The Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki 3.5-2.6.2024. Model in images: Matilda Keränen.
EchoChamber is a room of mirrors, containing a video that ponders on themes of appropriation, entertainment and the surveillance society. While copyright laws within the art field continue to tighten, the work asks why AI is allowed to use almost anything from the internet. As the visitor leaves the installation, they become aware of an AI that has been scanning their every move and has made a very intimate profile of them.
Link to the video: https://youtu.be/Q_-yeLvdPTs
What the AI does: The AI program is watching over you while you are watching the video instide the mirror room. The program tries to determine what emotions you feel and if you stay for over 5minutes it makes a profile of you. The profiles scroll by the exit door for 15minutes and after that the program automatically deletes all data of you. All data is restored on a local hard drive.
Technical specifications: The emotion recognition program is using MediaPipe files and is based on a code by Rattasart Sakunraats, that in itself is based on Kazuhito Takahashis gesture recognition program with MLP. The code is written in Python and modified with the curtesy of the Apache v2 License 2004. Programmers: Sofia Haapamäki, Teodor Adolfssons ,Tuomo Rainio and Annabel Kajetski. Artistic content by: Annabel Kajetski
