Classification Cube (2019)
Image by: David Pace
Image by: David Pace
Classification Cube is an art installation that invites participants to become more familiar with a machine-learning classification system. Inside an immersive space which is designed to seem private and neutral, participants’ bodies become subjected to a classification process which detects their faces and estimates their age, gender, emotion and action. A screen inside the cube showing the classification of a diverse group of animated figures allows participants to compare their own classification with that of others. This comparison raises an awareness regarding the effectiveness of machine interpretation. The rapid update of the outcomes of the process suggests that movement inside the space may alter the classification outcome. Participants are encouraged to become engaged in a performative behavior and try to affect the way the system ‘sees’ them as objects of information.
Image by: David Pace
