Conrad Weise is a Cologne/Cluj based artist and researcher. In his work he looks at socio-political settings where he locates computation and its implications. Through investigative and computational approaches from within these systems, his works attempt to contextualise the intransparent and uncertain arrangements. His current research focuses in particular on the hidden labour and automated engagement within computational systems.
A research project designed for the experimental disclosure and artistic investigation of Amazon's retour infrastructure with an interest to dissolve its information asymmetry and reveal the spatial workings of the company. ↬ www
Reflects on the hidden labour within computational systems and locates the simulated engagement of group control systems within surveillance capitalism as a subversion to it. This work finds great inspiration within the field of digital anthropology and takes a cultural approach: it treats the lived experiences of people involved in the production of automated engagement and group control systems as the subject for theorising the complicated structures of contemporary digital capital. ↬ www
Reflects on the performative conditioning of interfaces (and its users) and explores information asymmetry as a shared standard. The installation is a spatial representation of Apple’s original slide to unlock user interface element. ↬ www
Performs a standard Turing test via establishing a conversation with the exhibition visitor and an Amazon mechanical turk worker—creating a connection between the fauxtomation and socio-political implications of machine learning. ↬ turing-test.git ↬ slides ↬ recording
Exhibited at:Performative installation which questions while entering an exhibition space: Is the current space physical or digital? Are these actions public or private? Are you a human or a (ro)bot? ↬ captcha.git
Exhibited at:Since the beginning of computation it’s physicality has become increasingly smaller and since Gordon Moore’s
famous prediction computation became almost transparent. In today's information age, it is easy to forget about
the socio-political presence of software, when algorithms are used by the local police to predict where next
crimes will happen, huge logistic warehouses are organized by the machine’s preferences and hype technologies
consume more electricity than entire countries.
While these computational systems are often camouflaged as
being objective or neutral, the underlying processes are anything but. At the core software development is about
the interpretation of inclusion and exclusion.
This work looks at the origin and manifestation of
computation and how it is reinforcing highly rational ways of thinking, which do not integrate into the complex
world around us. ↬ translation.pdf translation-of-computation.git
Since the beginning of computation it’s physicality has become increasingly smaller and since Gordon Moore’s
famous prediction computation became almost transparent. In today's information age, it is easy to forget about
the physical presence of software, when user interfaces blend completely into their environment, fiber-optic
cables lay deep in the pacific, and almost everything is stored in the cloud.
For now the incomprehensible
world of computation was reduced to the inner workings of integrated circuits or machines. But with spaces like
Amazon fulfillment centers its rationality and opaqueness is mapped onto our physical space.
This work
places computation in the center of the architectural and spatial discourse and explores how computation is
actively structuring physical and relational space. ↬ topology.pdf
Synchronizes different camera inputs based on human pose estimation w/ @tensorflow ↬ self.git
Exhibited at:Provides a way to interactively and critically examine the reinforcement of our opinions and how we contribute to conversations.