Educational project
Tangible Algorithm
SUPSI Image Focus
Tangible Algorithms makes an image-classification algorithm physically visible, turning hidden digital processes into an interactive form. By exposing effects like categorization and censorship, it prompts reflection on how unseen algorithms shape what we can or cannot see online.
Tangible Algorithms is a physical representation of an image classification algorithm, transforming normally hidden digital processes into a visible and interactive experience.
Although the algorithm’s inner workings remain opaque, its effects become tangible: from metadata generation to content categorization and even the censorship of sensitive material.
Trained through machine learning, the system analyzes and classifies images, making evident how automated decisions influence our digital environments.
The installation invites visitors to consider how algorithms—largely invisible yet deeply embedded in our daily interactions—shape access to information and determine what we are allowed or encouraged to see.
By materializing these processes, Tangible Algorithms opens a critical space for examining the hidden infrastructures of AI and their impact on contemporary visual culture.
Although the algorithm’s inner workings remain opaque, its effects become tangible: from metadata generation to content categorization and even the censorship of sensitive material.
Trained through machine learning, the system analyzes and classifies images, making evident how automated decisions influence our digital environments.
The installation invites visitors to consider how algorithms—largely invisible yet deeply embedded in our daily interactions—shape access to information and determine what we are allowed or encouraged to see.
By materializing these processes, Tangible Algorithms opens a critical space for examining the hidden infrastructures of AI and their impact on contemporary visual culture.