Haptophilia

Images of crowd simulation are faced with testimonies from Liverpool Football Club’s supporters who recall their experience marked by a tragic event: the Hillsborough stadium disaster in 1989, which changed the nature of the game of football.

A deadly accident involving a self-driving car and a pedestrian sets in motion a series of questions and concerns about the role of human vehicle operators in the training of autonomous automobiles.

How does a machine learn to read the world? Testimonies and screen recordings introduce the experience of online micro-workers from the Global South: their job is to teach the AI of self-driving cars to navigate the streets of the Global North.

A virtual crowd from archival footage invades contemporary promotional images.