Network installation with live webcam and mp3 sound file (mp3, 8′), 2018-2026
Live version: Penser voir on Acoustic Cameras
A surveillance camera films a beach and burns out. We hear its voice, as if it were alive. Its level of intelligence has led it to doubt and no longer know what to do (“Damn. I have a discrimination problem”): What is it? What should it be looking at? What constitutes suspicious behavior? What is its purpose? It no longer understands anything, evoking both the overexploited click workers who feed AI and the “bullshit jobs” described by David Graeber.
Penser voir was created at the invitation of the Acoustic Cameras project, which invites artists and musicians to invest in live webcam feeds from around the world, adding sound or musical creations to them. The project og Penser voir consisted of reversing this protocol, making the camera itself the subject of the work and giving it a voice.
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Penser voir will be exhibited in Ososphere Festival, Strasbourg, in February 2026. It has been exhibited regularly in France and abroad since 2018: Carte blanche CAPA Aubervilliers 2018, Théâtre du Granit 2020, Experimenta Grenoble 2020, Festival Ososphère 2022, ISEA Barcelona 2022, Maquinas Misticas Madrid 2022, École supérieure d’art d’Aix en Provence 2023.
Thanks to Acoustic Cameras, Pierre Beloüin and Didier Hochart.