Prize Winner Year: 2020

The invasive surveillance apparatus we find embedded in almost all aspects of our technologically mediated lives collects and analyzes personal information which is then used to manipulate and produce various outcomes that...
Vision Processor: EN471 (2019), video installation, Vision Processor chip, machine learning, video dataset, found footage, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Installation in an exhibition space. Made from black scaffolding tubes at different heights with a screen on each support. The three smaller outside screens show video’s of archetypal physical behavior for protestors, construction workers and traffic controllers wearing yellow vests. They are surrounded by grass. While the center screen shows existing video footage of protestors and the classification percentages from the machine learning algorithm.
Our human and technological sensorial perceptions are inseparably connected and constantly shaping each other in today’s digital age; this fact usually serves as the basis for Van Zandwijk’s projects. With installations, a...
Dr. Pip Thornton is an artist and researcher, and a Chancellor’s Fellow in GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh, where she researches the politics of existence in digital spaces....