The Curse of Dimensionality

The Curse of Dimensionality focuses on the algorithms that underlie the construction and identification of “threats” across a range of scales and environments. It visualises the intelligence used in predictive analytics to create targets, which is to say objects in space and time that need to be found, controlled,or eliminated. Governments, corporations, and citizens around the world employ sensors to look at and after the spaces around them, whether for protection or harm. The temporal gap between sensing or data collection and a decision about action can sometimes be frighteningly short, and it is mediated by algorithms, analytic guidelines built out of probability. This project aims to train the senses to see, hear, and grasp the hidden dimensions that too often remain taken for granted or unnoticed.