85% Human
2023-2025
Printed CCTV stills, acrylic and pencil on paper
This artwork comprises printed footage downloaded from CCTV cameras positioned in a rural area. An AI system detects movement, tagging figures as either Human or Other, and assesses its own confidence by assigning a percentage-flagged above the red-framed detected figure. The resulting imagery seems as if the machine is grading the degree of one’s humanness or otherness. This absurd perceptual shift produces a satirical glitch that highlights how man-made technologies take positions on human identity.
Intervening in this automated loop, I add my own layer of interpretation—drawing and painting the digitised footage. This artistic act both disrupts and responds to the techno-scientific gaze, drawing attention to its presence and to the increasingly mediated way humans encounter the world.
The work was presented at the exhibition MEMORY_ALMOST_FULL as part of The Wrong Biennale* and at my solo exhibition Humanity Measures Itself.
Photos: Dafna Talmon, Erik Krichely, Haya Sheffer
*The Wrong Biennale is a member of the International Biennial Association. It is a worldwide, independent, non-profit, multicultural, and collaborative art biennial devoted to presenting digital art to a global audience.
