⊹ Lars Alexander Pinkwart

Lars Alexander Pinkwart is a researcher with a background in media studies and STS at the University of Potsdam and Goldsmiths, University of London. Currently, he is a student and research assistant at ⊹ New Practice, a platform between University of the Arts and Technische Universität Berlin.

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2022

Installation
with Philipp Gschwendter

Shown at
Ars Electronica 2022
Transmediale Vorspiel 2023


In the tradition of optical instruments, algorithmic models are considered as instruments of knowledge magnification (Pasquinelli, 2019) reaching beyond the scale of human perception. The interactive instrument and its accompanying manual open up questions of scale, objectivity and the limits of algorithmic models. Through the mismatch of GAN-generated images analysed by an object detection model, the installation highlights an algorithmic culture of “automatic correlation”.