Editors’ Choice: Speculative Surveillance with Ring™ Log
Digital Humanities Now 2019-11-01
Summary:
Over the weekend I launched Ring Log, which is simultaneously a critique of surveillance culture and a parody of machine vision in suburbia. In the interactive artist statement I call Ring Log an experiment in speculative surveillance. “Speculative” in this context means what if? What if Amazon’s Ring doorbell cams began integrating AI-powered object detection...