Thierry Fournier: Sightseeing (Penser voir) | Beach - Benicàsim - Spain

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Thierry Fournier

Sightseeing (Penser voir)

Beach - Benicàsim - Spain

lat.: 40.0575, long.: 0.0856

About the work

Document sans nom Une caméra de vidéosurveillance filme une plage. Nous entendons sa voix, comme si elle était vivante. Le niveau de perfection de son intelligence l'aurait amenée à douter et à ne plus savoir quoi faire. Elle pense tout haut et fait part de ses interrogations : Qu’est-ce que c’est ? Que doit-elle regarder ? Comment reconnaître un paysage ? Qu'est-ce qu'un comportement suspect ? Mais surtout, à quoi sert-elle ? Elle ne comprend rien. Comme si elle était en burn-out, elle se compare aux travailleurs du clic sous-payés qui alimentent les intelligences artificielles, questionnant le sens de son travail, dans un anthropomorphisme qui soulève les enjeux politiques de ces dispositifs.

A CCTV camera films a beach. We hear her voice, as if she were alive. The level of perfection of her intelligence would have led her to doubt and not know what to do. She thinks out loud and shares her questions: What is it? What should she look at? How to recognize a landscape? What is suspicious behavior? But above all, what's the use of all that? She does not understand anything. As if she were in burn-out, she compares herself to the underpaid click workers who feed the artificial intelligences, questioning the meaning of her work with an anthropomorphism that raises the political stakes of these techniques.

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About the artist

Thierry Fournier is a French artist and curator living in the Paris area; he holds an Architecture degree from the Lyon Architecture College. His work forms the hypothesis of a life of things (objects, network, technologies …) to question the way in which the identity, the otherness and the limits of the human are deeply replayed in the relations with them. His practice ranges from installations, objects, videos to prints, photographs, performances, sound works. He teaches also at EnsadLab PSL (Paris) and Ensad Nancy art college.

www.thierryfournier.net