The Haunting of the Automated Gaze
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This article analyzes the artistic exploration of machine vision in the video installation
Modern Escape (2018) by Danish artist duo Hanne Nielsen and Birgit Johnsen. The artwork
recreates a modern Western home pervaded by surveillance technologies and the
automated vision of a robotic vacuum cleaner. The main conceptual idea of the work is
the automated gaze, and with few exceptions, all the scenes in the video are filmed without
a human behind the camera. As a result, the installation evokes the haunted atmosphere
of a home penetrated by a gaze that drifts incessantly, opening up randomly strange and
awkward vantage points of the interior. Specifically, the article offers a reading of Modern
Escape in the light of Avery Gordon’s notion of “haunting” and argues that the modern
Western home is saturated with traces of the military industrial complex through its
commonplace technologies, which are haunted by a history of war, complicity, and
masculine desires for control. Haunting, according to Gordon, is one way in which
“abusive systems of power make themselves known and their impacts felt in everyday life”
(Ghostly Matters xvi). The present article discusses how Modern Escape responds to and
questions the subtle militarization of the everyday the technologies carry into the
estranged home, “that quintessential space of the uncanny, the haunted house” (Gordon,
Ghostly Matters 50).
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | MAST: The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory |
Vol/bind | 3 |
Udgave nummer | 1 |
Sider (fra-til) | 15-40 |
Antal sider | 26 |
ISSN | 2691-1566 |
Status | Udgivet - apr. 2022 |
- Det Humanistiske Fakultet - the automated gaze, contemporary art, surveillance, haunting, machine vision
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