2024/05/02

Simone C Niquille Trains Chair to Navigate Datafied Model Home

Simone C Niquille’s CGI film Beauty and The Beep (2024) premieres at EXPOSED Torino Foto Festival (IT), completing the Dutch artist’s trilogy on cohabitation with computer vision. Following an AI-trained computer model of a ‘smart chair’ trying—struggling—to find a place to sit, the film playfully collages evidence of the modern datafied home: The chair is designed after Bertil, the first IKEA product advertized with synthetic imagery while the parcour resembles Boston Dynamics’ model home for robot dogs.

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