Parallels (Linz)

Parallels is a site-specific, responsive machine learning installation that transforms an LED wall into a portal for viewers to encounter the world and themselves through the lens of a neural network.
Each moment, a camera behind the wall takes a photograph of the ambient environment which is then reinterpreted and presented on the screen. As an interactive sculpture, Parallels seeks to embed emerging machine vision technologies directly within the landscape and built environment, questioning how new forms of artificial knowledge can be placed within a longue durée of human sense-making practices. The installation thus draws the sphere of machine vision into conversation with the surrounding architecture and the historical embeddedness of the viewer, providing an occasion to meditate on a moment when ways of seeing are being reconfigured.