PARSER
Meerdo’s new installation PARSER examines the BlueLeaks archive, a vast data set obtained by the hacker collective Anonymous. These images are drawn from a federally sanctioned system of monitoring, collecting, and consolidating national crime evidence for the purposes of arresting offenders across state lines. Originally developed to assist law enforcement in combating terror after 9/11, the majority of this data consists of illegible security footage stills taken by police while visiting loss-prevention departments at big-box stores. Using machine learning (DAIN), Meerdo “tweens” the images in the archive to produce amalgamated synthesized images, disrupting the promise of AI-assisted predictive police algorithms and data forensics.
Documentation via: Useful Art Service
