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Year
2019
Category
Interactive Installation
Collaborators
Josua Roters, Ludwig Pfeiffer
A modern tale tells of a device for donkey recognition. Precise data analysis replaces common sense. Public detection terminals are everywhere to be found, where there is a higher probability of confrontation with donkeys. An atmospheric film accompanies the interactive installation. The donkey detector, trained with machine learning, is actually able to detect donkeys. Connected to a camera, the device evaluates what it sees in realtime. If it is a donkey (or a person wearing a donkey mask), a servo motor is activated, which turns the flashing computer by 180° and symbolically deciphers the cryptic numerical codes of the black box. Seemingly supernatural AI is unmasked as a mathematical app- lication and the figures on the display are also readable: ESEL