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.
Participants
LAURA KURGAN, ADELINE CHUM, MICHAEL KRISCH, ADAM VOSBURGH, AND JIA ZHANG
NEW YORK, USA
Laura Kurgan, Cape Town, South Africa, 1960. Lives and works in New York, USA.
Adeline Chum, Toronto, Canada, 1994. Lives and works in New York, USA.
Michael Krisch, Minneapolis, USA, 1986. Lives and works in New York, USA.
Adam Vosburgh, New York City, USA, 1994.Lives and works in New York, USA.
Jia Zhang, New York City, USA, 1981. Lives and works in New York, USA.
Supporters
Center for Spatial Research, Columbia GSAPP; Brown Institute for Media Innovation, Columbia Journalism School; Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation, and Planning (GSAPP)
