Steven Cottingham: Human Resources

HUMAN RESOURCES
STEVEN COTTINGHAM \ APRIL 1 - MAY 26, 2023
downloads: press release | installation guide

Exhibition opening: 31 March, 17-21h

Discussion: 27 March,16:30-18h @Appliedhumanrights, Vordere Zollamtsstrasse 7, seminar room 20

Gallery tour: 20 April, 16-19h

Human Resources is an exhibition considering surveillance in relation to human rights, using computer rendering and animal camouflage to situate predatory vision within an increasingly datafied world. As advanced extraction algorithms require less and less realtime oversight, the data they gather is not necessarily used for observation but to fuel predictive simulations—resulting in a conflation of actual and virtual conditions. At the center of this exhibition is a feature-length machinima film set in a futuristic prison under total and constant surveillance, where prisoners develop new forms of crypsis to elude the omnipresent gaze of their AI surveiller.