Watching Machines is a three-day exhibition and public programme on algorithmic vision: facial recognition, biometric remote identification and behavioural-analysis systems (emotions, gait, movement) are increasingly woven into the infrastructure of public space. Bringing together four years of work from the ERC-funded Security Vision project, it gathers films, installations, and interactive data works by Cyan Bae, Francesco Ragazzi, and Ruben van de Ven, alongside a public programme of conversations with policy makers, artists, researchers, and activists.

The exhibition asks a set of plain questions. Where are these systems deployed, and by whom? On what data are they trained, and through what kinds of human labour? What do they get wrong, and what does that error reveal? And what would it mean to look back at the machines that are looking at us?

Free entry. All welcome.

Artists & researchers: Cyan Bae · Francesco Ragazzi · Ruben van de Ven

Supported by: European Research Council · Leiden University · The Grey Space in the Middle · ReCNTR