I like to watch / CopVision

Filed under Art: Internet

“Automated surveillance of surveillance of surveillance.”
Simon Greenwold’s “I Like to Watch” is a computer program that watches television. CopVision, then, is a version of I Like to Watch that watches, well, Cops (the Fox show).

“It analyzes every frame, searching the field for outlines that remind it of something it has seen before. When it recognizes a contour it tags it with a guess as to what might be going on, gathered from its experience of words and pictures that go together.”

The end result is oddly human in an inhuman way, like Johnny5, or Robocop from the movies… it has a disjointed childish “comprehension” of what it sees.

· CopVision video
· CopVision Still images
Seen @ Coin-Op by way of We Make Money, Not Art