SITUATIONAL COMPLIANCE (2025)
In this audio-visual interactive work, a system plays a game of #SimonSays leveraging #artificialintelligence and computer vision as a means to reflect on larger issues of #public #surveillance. The methods and technical aspects of the installation are exposed as a means of understanding this system and in turn, public surveillance systems and their capabilities. By using OTS + custom trained AI models we begin to understand how our behaviors are analyzed, categorized and understood through the ever watchful eye and algorithm.
This installation playfully examines the dynamics of surveillance and compliance within a society increasingly analyzed by technology. As players follow commands generated by the system, they traverse the tension between agency and external control. As they perform each pose, it represents both a moment of creativity and simultaneously the negation of identity in a digitally mediated environment. The computer vision system echoes the omnipresence of public surveillance, capturing the physical movements as compliance or non-compliance.
The installation challenges participants to reflect on their own behaviors in the face of an ever-watchful eye. Rather than an #interactive work that is simply a mirror reacting to the audience movement, voice, or facial recognition, this reverses the paradigm by demanding specific interactions. The work is a commentary on the human tendency to conform, often unthinkingly, to authoritative signals. This interactive experience invites an inquiry into the nature of freedom and the mechanisms of social control. It prompts participants to consider how technology can both liberate and constrain, revealing the complexities of human interaction within a landscape increasingly defined by the intertwining of artificial intelligence and surveillance.
Audio + Additional Programming by @lucasp_av
produced by: @mois.multi and @mutekmontreal 2025
thanks to: @manuel_bolduc_@sat_montreal@sat.innovation@touchdesigner #mediapipe
video documentation from #MutekMontreal 2025 and @village.numerique
more: /Situational-Compliance
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See you soon. đ