A kinetic installation that previously spent 100 hours machine learning and attempting to maximize the attention of the viewers of an online video-chat platform by changing its own movement. The aim of the work is to raise the question: how anthropomorphic is this behavior, both in practice, and as the gesture of an unnecessary, self-deluding effort? Given that machine learning in this shape and form could never find an optimal solution, the work of the machine is unnecessary.
Beep-boop, photo: Viktor Varga