This database collects information about games, art and narratives that use or represent machine vision technologies. This is part of the ERC project Machine Vision in Everyday Life: Playful Interactions with Visual Technologies in Digital Art, Games, Narratives and Social Media

Citation: Rettberg, Jill Walker, Linda Kronman, Ragnhild Solberg, Marianne Gunderson, Stein-Magne Bjørklund, Linn Heidi Stokkedal, Kurdin Jacob. 2021. Machine Vision in Art, Games and Narratives. Research database. http://machine-vision.no.

Machine Vision Situations

875 records
Situation Brief description Aesthetic Characteristics
Zanan Disruption (placing statues)

The artists takes screen captures of street view in Google and places statues of Zanan (young hijabi women in strong poses) in chosen locations. Then "photobombed" images are uploaded back to google maps as user photos from the area.

Streetview, Wide-angle, 3D
Young Ones (Robot recording murder)

The family purchases a robot to replace their donkey to transport water up a hill for business purposes. On one of these trips the new son in law (Flem Lever) kills the father of his girlfriend and the head of the family (Ernest Holm) in front of the robot. Flem is unaware that the robot is recording everything in its view and has stored the scene of the murder in its harddrive. Later in the episode, the grieving son takes the robot for repair and discovers its archive of footage and learns about his dad murder, which ends in an act of revenge.

Dark, Grainy
YHB Pocket Shield (avoiding facial recognition at protests)

The artist demonstrates how a protest shield can be made using affordable materials or using a kit that can be ordered.

The user can both shield their face from spreading diseases (such as covid-19) and with anti-surveillance stickers obfuscate facial recognition software to avoid their face being detected and identified by law enforcement during protests.

Transparent, DIY
Years and years (Webcam diagnosing Edith`s eye)

Edith Lyons is starting to go blind but uses software on her computer that uses her webcam to diagnose her and to check up on her progress.

Informational, Webpage
Years and Years (Failed optical implant)

Bethany and Lizzie decide to get a sort of a bionic eye, as a part of their transhuman transformation. The operation is not a success.

Glitchy, Blurry, Delayed