Creative Capital

Description

Surveillance Suite is an interactive video installation that makes use of contemporary surveillance technologies. Working with a team of screenwriters, a series of short films will be shot on location, using gallery spaces and staff. Coupe will develop software to recognize visitors’ ages, genders and ethnic characteristics and then algorithmically insert the visitors into the films themselves, in real time. The films will thereby appropriate the identities of people in the gallery, taking control of the narrative contexts in which their images are presented. The resulting films are played on monitors throughout the gallery, constructing a feedback loop between fiction and reality.