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Words That Remake The World. Version 1.01 (Vision of the Seeker 2016-2018)

Digital Print
2019 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

The digital print charts a series of written descriptions detailing what The Seeker, an autonomous machine that identifies video streams across the globe, saw. The Seeker is a protype AI system that looks through compromised surveillance cameras and uses machine learning algorithms to describe its visions. The digital print is a topographical map of these visions.

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TitleWords That Remake The World. Version 1.01 (Vision of the Seeker 2016-2018) (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Digital print
Brief description
Words That Remake The World. Version 1.01 (Vision of the Seeker 2016-2018) Nye Thompson, 2019
Physical description
The digital print charts a series of written descriptions detailing what The Seeker, an autonomous machine that identifies video streams across the globe, saw. The Seeker is a protype AI system that looks through compromised surveillance cameras and uses machine learning algorithms to describe its visions. The digital print is a topographical map of these visions.
Dimensions
  • Height: 150.1cm
  • Length: 186.2cm
Object history
The Seeker: words that remake the world was displayed as a vinyl print in the V&A’s 'Artificially Intelligent' exhibition in 2018.
Collection
Accession number
E.44-2020

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Record createdJanuary 8, 2020
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