London
Trevor Paglen
Evolved Hallucinations
Oct 10 - Nov 7, 2024

Overview
“I wanted to see what would happen if we tried to build computer vision models based on a wide range of historical, cultural, and notional worldviews.“
- Trevor Paglen
Details
I've long been frustrated by the literalness with which fields like computer science and computer vision approach the topic of seeing. It's a neat trick to point a camera at a picture and have the caption "hot dog" or "not hot dog" appear on the screen. But if you show Rene Magritte's iconic "The Treachery of Images" to such an object recognition model, the classifier will invariably return the result: "This is a pipe." Something is wrong here.
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Artwork ID
994
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Dye Sublimation Print on Aluminum
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Unique
Physical Edition
1 + 1AP, h 27.94 x w 27.94 cm
I've long been frustrated by the literalness with which fields like computer science and computer vision approach the topic of seeing. It's a neat trick to point a camera at a picture and have the caption "hot dog" or "not hot dog" appear on the screen. But if you show Rene Magritte's iconic "The Treachery of Images" to such an object recognition model, the classifier will invariably return the result: "This is a pipe." Something is wrong here.