ALGORITHMIC GAZE functions as a digital mirror that makes the invisible logic of algorithmic seeing physically present. Visitors encounter their own image as the surveillance apparatus sees it: processed in real time through machine perception algorithms including YOLO and MediaPipe, the live camera feed is continuously analyzed, deconstructed, and overlaid with biometric data, skeletal tracking lines, and object classifications. The familiar reflection becomes unrecognizable data.

The sonic dimension operates as a silent stream. Visitors scan a QR code and receive a live binaural audio synthesis directly to their own headphones, creating an intimate resonance space that amplifies the visual estrangement of the experience without dominating the exhibition environment.

The installation builds a parasitic system: rather than offering the audience a service, it extracts their physical presence to drive its own logic. Visitors who intended only to observe find themselves directly implicated in the cycle of extraction they came to witness. All processing runs locally: nothing is recorded.

ALGORITHMIC GAZE was presented as part of the ART against BIG TECH exhibition at the Cables of Resistance conference, Berlin, April 2026. In conjunction with the exhibition, I participated in the InterLause #17 panel discussion on artistic strategies against Big Tech, alongside artists and researchers from UdK Berlin and the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

On 10 September 2026 the work opened gute aussichten: Festival der Fotografie, Poesie & KI in the Festsaal of Hambach Castle. The Hambach Festival of 1832 gathered tens of thousands at that castle to demand press freedom, civil rights and a unified nation, and the site is claimed today as a founding place of German democracy.

The Neustadt version works at room scale. A large projection, stereo sound, and a system that responds to movement in the hall, so the classification runs on the whole room and on everyone crossing it.