Sicherheit neu denken
Sicherheit neu denken explores the rise of predictive policing systems, examining the reasoning behind their design and adoption. The work references HessenData, a controversial data analysis tool used by the Hessian police, as an example of these emerging technologies.
It points out the risks in these technologies—including new kinds of errors and misuse arising from increased automation in data analysis. It also questions how the rational goal of ensuring safety can spiral into complicated and not-transparent practices. The video critically examines the language and aesthetics of big data policing technologies, including how their creators draw inspiration from fantasy, science fiction, and pop culture to name and describe their tools. It reflects on the fraught relationship between society and technology through a mythological imagining of a near-future.
Video work, 12’34
Direction, Concept, editing, Creative Direction, Renderings and exhibition-design: Ben Christ
Direction, Concept, Video-Footage, Renderings, Storytelling and exhibition-design: Maria Kaminska
Concept, Creative Direction, Sound and Graphics: Fernanda Braun Santos
Exhibited at New Practice in the Program Design and Computation at TU Berlin