Research

Livestream culture has exponentially increased in the last two years. Did you know there are 13 million people streaming their lives right now? Twitch, a subsidiary of Amazon is the leading live streaming video service that has 15 million daily active users. The self-streaming culture in China is exponentially growing…

Personalisation is perhaps the most rapidly engaged communication device that narrates our everyday urban routines without our acknowledgement. Algorithmic personalisation is ‘a process of gathering, storing, and analyzing information’ (Venugopal, 2009) by recommendation systems. It is a response to the discrepancies between the amount of data these actors can process…

The advent of new sensing technologies has shifted the contemporary experience of visual content to include 3 dimensions. With remote satellite sensing we have transitioned from viewing the earth from a planar map to a 3 dimensional globe. Depth LIDAR sensors and motion trackers used in cinema, virtual reality and…

Artificial intelligence generates the cinematic substance of today, molding the clay of the cinematic image itself. This can most readily be observed in the cultural phenomena of deep fakes, produced by general adversarial networks (also known as GANs). These neural network processing works in binary manner, the former works in…

‘Current’ focuses on democratising reconstruction techniques to facilitate a collective contribution to urban archives. Instead of using high end technologies and softwares that are only available to institutions and corporations, ‘Current’ tested a number of low-end sensors (i.e. mobile phones, Kinect, drones, etc.), open-sourced AI algorithms and photogrammetry frameworks that…

Although we often imagine alternative intelligence to take the form of humanoid personas in some distant future, artificial intelligence is already in our lives in the form of an algorithm. AI predicts and offers us recommendations to our preferences based on databases of our search and purchase history. In fact,…

In the era of post-truth, where deepfakes and hyper real simulations trick the human cognition, Currensee proposes the use of algorithmically enhanced collaborative seeing mechanisms in order to authenticate truth through multiple perspectives: increasing the resolution of an event by streaming a wider range of points of view. Most images…

Mobility in camera and live-stream technologies administers the moving image with cinematic conditions that extend the human eye into commonly inaccessible environments, events and non-human perspectives, all within the immediacy of real-time. This accelerates a new economy of values, where attention, authenticity and alternative perspectives become a new form of…

Currensee is a speculative microeconomy for environmentally and socially contested spaces. It imagines that access to other perspectives can be valued and micro-licensed. It also takes into consideration the microvalues of ecological labour like carbon and oxygen production of forests and ties them to a system broader social value exchange.…