UTA #10 Ways of Seeing
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Experience Ways of Seeing and explore how AI and archives shape the way we see.
In this tenth edition of Unfolding the Archives, we take a fresh look at three photo collections by architects from the Flanders Architecture Institute. Architects use photography to document their work, gather images that inspire them and develop ideas.
But what happens when those photographs enter an archive? And who determines their meaning - the viewer, or the machine that classifies them?
UTA 10 presents a triptych featuring images from the archives of Georges Baines, Christian Kieckens and Lou Jansen. Visitors encounter the original photographs, confront automatic image labels, and listen to audio stories that allow the images to speak in new ways.
In this way, the installation invites us to reflect on how we look at things today: the role of artificial intelligence, the hidden assumptions behind classifications, and the ways technology and imagination shape one another.
Ways of Seeing is an experiential installation that encourages visitors to consider how meaning is constructed - and how it changes.
But what happens when those photographs enter an archive? And who determines their meaning - the viewer, or the machine that classifies them?
UTA 10 presents a triptych featuring images from the archives of Georges Baines, Christian Kieckens and Lou Jansen. Visitors encounter the original photographs, confront automatic image labels, and listen to audio stories that allow the images to speak in new ways.
In this way, the installation invites us to reflect on how we look at things today: the role of artificial intelligence, the hidden assumptions behind classifications, and the ways technology and imagination shape one another.
Ways of Seeing is an experiential installation that encourages visitors to consider how meaning is constructed - and how it changes.
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