Robot Readable World by Timo Arnall.
"How do robots see the world? How do they extract meaning from our streets, cities, media and from us? This is an experiment in found machine-vision footage, exploring the aesthetics of the robot eye"
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Robot Readable World by Timo Arnall.
"How do robots see the world? How do they extract meaning from our streets, cities, media and from us? This is an experiment in found machine-vision footage, exploring the aesthetics of the robot eye"

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It starts off with “huh?”, a sense of mystification about what the algorithm could be responding to. Then there’s a kind of aesthetic of the glitch. “Oh it’s a screw up, how funny and slightly troubling”. But then finally, the more of these I saw, the more the effect started to feel truly other: like a coherent, but alien idea of what faces were. It made me wonder what I was missing. "What is it seeing there?”
Greg Borenstein - Machine Pareidolia: Hello Little Fella meets FaceTracker
BERG's product sketch, Clocks for Robots explores how displays could be designed for "artificial eyes".
Brilliant.
Digitisation makes something ephemeral, reproducible, robot-readable—and networkable. In fact, its capacity to be connected to other things like and unlike itself is its most insistent quality. It longs for it. The digital object is immanent in the network. It is where it is most truly itself, which is everything.
James Bridle in The System of the World: Rorschmap Redux