{"id":3671,"date":"2024-04-03T12:04:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T11:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/?post_type=event&#038;p=3671"},"modified":"2025-05-26T12:17:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T11:17:32","slug":"3671","status":"publish","type":[29,62],"link":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/event\/2024\/3671\/","title":{"rendered":"unknown label, by nicolas gourault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Unknown Label<\/em> reveals the invisible people who help shape the way machines see the world. It all starts with a coincidence: in 2018, German car manufacturers, surprised by the advances made by Google and Tesla, invested a lot of money in research into autonomous vehicles. They collected a huge amount of images from car sensors, which needed to be processed. That same year, Venezuela was hit by an economic crisis that left thousands of workers unemployed. Many of them turned to online microwork platforms, where they joined people from Kenya and the Philippines in the task of annotating images that arrived in their thousands from Germany and the USA. This installation explores the everyday reality of these micro-workers from the Global South and investigates the power asymmetries and neo-colonialist exploitation involved in the human labour needed to train artificial intelligence systems.<br \/>\nNicolas Gourault is an artist and film-maker based in Paris. He has a background in art and visual studies. His work is imbued with this dual background, navigating between open source online investigations and the critical use of new media as documentary tools. His films and video installations explore the power relations embedded in technologies and attempt to construct counter-narratives through the use of testimonies and the experimental creation of images. Gourault&#8217;s work has been shown at venues such as the Centre Pompidou and Ars Electronica, as well as film festivals such as Cin\u00e9ma du R\u00e9el, Festival dei Popoli or IndieLisboa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">exhibition part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/indexmediaarts.com\/\">index 2024 &#8211; art and technology biennial programme<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">work created in 2023 as part of an artistic residency at the werkleitz &#8211; centre for media art in berlin (germany)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">european media art platform is a project co-funded by the european union<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6793\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/EMAP-site-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6729\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/EN-Co-Funded-by-the-EU_WHITE-300x63.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"50\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>support<\/strong> portuguese republic &#8211; culture \/ directorate-general for the arts. rtcp &#8211; network of portuguese theatres and cinemas<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">support for internationalisation IF Export 2024 of the Institut Fran\u00e7ais, Paris, and the Mais Fran\u00e7a programme of the Institut Fran\u00e7ais de Portugal<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3822 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/04\/admin-ajax-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/04\/admin-ajax-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/04\/admin-ajax.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unknown Label reveals the invisible people who help shape the way machines see the world. It all starts with a coincidence: in 2018, German car manufacturers, surprised by the advances made by Google and Tesla, invested a lot of money in research into autonomous vehicles. They collected a huge amount of images from car sensors, <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/event\/2024\/3671\/\" title=\"Learn More\">Learn More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3911,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3671","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","type-exhibition","type-exhibition-program"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/3671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/3671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3845,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/3671\/revisions\/3845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type?post=3671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}