Online Residency: Leon Eckert

i. 'cell phone, person'

ii. A generation's arm

i. 'tvmonitor'

ii. 3D tv

i. 'person’

ii. an interface for musical expression

i. 'donut, person’

ii. Nature is fun

i. 'car, car, person, person, person, car, handbag, car, car, person’

ii. Double pink and green / Rockaway, NYC

i. 'person, person’

ii. Cyborg TK1971 rebooting

i. 'cup, potted plant’

ii. Grown from the beautiful mind of Daniella

i. 'giraffe’

ii. Hot marble

i. 'laptop, person’

ii. A sketchbook

JAN 15-31 2018

When we post content online, algorithms are our first audience, mining it for information.

Caption (i) and the blurred image were generated by one such algorithm programmed to classify the contents of the original image.

The project originally takes place on Instagram, where @loquepasa_watched_over (controlled by a computer) watches over @loquepasa (run by a human) to process images as they are posted.

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Radial Gallery is pleased to present "Watched Over", a project by Leon Eckert, as part of his January online residency.

more info: leoneckert.com/projects/watched-over

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Leon Eckert is a German programmer, researcher and artist focusing on the critical discussion of technology and its impact on society. His work is inspired by the psychological, cultural and geopolitical processes at play in a time of large-scale data collection and analysis. Currently he works as a research fellow at ITP (Tisch School of the Arts, NYU).