MOHAMMED ROWE

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2020

"Captcha" a collaboration with Sangbum Ahn, "The main purpose of data analysis is to regulate or pre-empt future contingencies through prediction. For example, the CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) based image processing used in CAPTCHA has been deployed to control people's social distancing in today’s pandemic and to recognise the faces of protesters in Hong Kong. All of these automated surveillance systems are designed to control future risks. By using this form of essay film, speculation is a way to interfere and repeatedly question this predicted future." Sangbum Ahn.