Vanja Hamdahl

I begin my project by looking at datasets used to train machine learning models.

Some pictures come from surveillance cameras, dash cams and family videos.

Others are staged, repetitions of the same movement or landscape. A car driving around in circles.

The machine moves like a sleepwalker, stalking the memories of humanity. An unseeing eye, the landscapes blindingly white.

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Images from the Provident Vehicle Detection at Night (PVDN) dataset.

Handwoven with reflective thread in a digital jaquard loom.