![]() These objects are stored in a database as short clips of bounding boxes of ever changing scale and position. Sometimes powerful and revealing, but also fallible and coloured.Īfter training the algorithm it has observed over 400 hours of video and detected more than 1 million objects. as an outcome or an answer, but as a dialog between man and machine. By playing with this value, the audience can explore the limits of the algorithm where does it draw the line between a man and a woman? By exposing these choices the eye, the class and the confidence, the installation allows for a more intuitive relation to A.I.$One that does not present A.I. After choosing an eye and browsing through its different classes the user can set the confidence threshold, a value that sets how "confident" the algorithm needs to be for a result to appear. As such they highlight the inevitable cultural perspectives embedded in the process of computer vision from data collection to annotation and categorization. These classes follow the structure of the imagenet dataset and range from obvious and utilitarian to absurd and problematic. ![]() With these eyes, the algorithm can identify between 30 and 60 different classes men, women, children, but also politicians, economists and "bad people". ![]() These categories are the "eyes" through which the algorithm observes the archive.īy choosing an eye, the user chooses a narrow perspective The eye trained on people can only see people. The installation employs an object detection algorithm that has been trained on Imagenet data across three categories people, artefacts and natural objects. When a computer looks at the world, what does it “see”? This installation lets the audience look at 558 episodes of VPRO Tegenlicht (Dutch Future Affairs Documentary series) through the eyes of a computer vision Neural Network. ![]() By visualizing and sonifying fluctuations on a scale from seconds to hours and months the work proposes a new perspective on our collective cosmic condition, the impact of our sun and its magnetic storms on our technology and a sense of connectedness in the tradition of Spaceship Earth and the Blue Marble. The instrument translates real time space weather into a dynamic electromagnetic performance. Solar winds take between 15 to 60 minutes to reach earth and with a delay of about 10 minutes between the measurement on board of the spacecraft and the activation of the chime, the chime performs the signal between 5 and 50 minutes before it reaches earth. A ring of digits displays the raw sensor data. While the tubes are pushed and pulled by the surrounding magnets they start to swing ever stronger and touch each other as the data is translated into an acoustic performance. $As the spacecraft measures an increase in solar activity, the temperature, particle density and direction are transmitted to earth and translated by the chime into a dynamic magnetic field. The DSCOVR Deep Space Climate Observatory is a spacecraft that measures solar wind and provides a 15-to-60-minute advanced warning before a storm of particles and magnetic field reaches earth.Ĭosmic Wind Chime is an instrument that translates the real time data measured by the DSCOVR Observatory into a small magnetic field that sets in motion a series of metal tubes. As we are entering a period of increased solar activity in the next few years, space weather may become of increased significance to all. The frequency and intensity of solar winds follow the sun cycle that rotates the sun’s magnetic field every 11 years. As the streams of charged particles hit electronic equipment, they can disrupt communication and navigation systems and even cause power blackouts. While solar winds can be perceived as polar lights at high latitudes, they can have global consequences. These solar winds define the space weather that surrounds our Spaceship Earth. An instrument that measures bursts of energy ejected from the surface of our star, heading towards us. 1.5 million kilometers from earth where the gravitational force from the earth and our sun are in perfect balance lives a man-made object.
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