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🔥 From the beloved Catalan correfoc - where dancers spin sparks in the streets, celebrating community and culture - to fiery clashes at protests, fire has a deep and complex meaning across different contexts. But what happens when AI fails to recognize this nuance?

💥 “Not All Sparks Are Equal” was a projection mapping in which we explored how AI surveillance systems flatten these complexities, turning fire into a mere data point, unable to distinguish between a festival and a riot. Through AI-driven visuals, our projection visually represented how algorithms misinterpret human activities, equating celebration with chaos.

The dangers of this misrecognition are real. Following the 2017 G20 protests in Hamburg, German police used facial recognition to analyze over 100 terabytes of footage, thereby prosecuting protesters. Similarly, at the Notting Hill Carnival, police deployed facial recognition on 100,000 attendees. These systems didn’t see the people—they saw pixels and patterns, losing the cultural context behind these acts.

This project highlights the profound limitations of surveillance technologies, urging us to question how we allow machines to interpret our public spaces. Should we let AI decide what’s safe and what’s threatening? What’s lost when technology overlooks the richness of human experience?

The projection mapping, displayed on the facade of the Design Hub during the evenings of the 2025 OFFF Festival in Barcelona, was a call for more mindful AI - one that grasps context and respects the complexity of our world views 🚨
@offfest @datachronicles.ai by @datachronicles_

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welcome back september! and welcome back what we love the most: experimenting and doing weird things in front of the camera by @datachronicles_

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bts of “Forever Frequencies” for Barbican Museum in London, opening this thursday May 22nd by @datachronicles_

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learnings and testings by @datachronicles_

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can you guess the workflow? by @datachronicles_

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some of the Archive’s images we have used for the exhibition

Tomorrow at 19h: “Uncoded Gestures” at @paloaltobarcelona with @arxiuhistoricpoblenou taken in el Poblenou, Barcelona by @datachronicles_

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What can a small gesture tell us about history? Over the past year, we’ve been exploring how movement becomes memory - and how AI might help us notice the echoes we carry without knowing 🧠

This has morphed into our Uncoded Gestures project, which was put on display, back in May at the @paloaltobarcelona centre in Barcelona, where we trained our prototype to match the gestures of visitors with the gestures of individuals in the images from the Poblenou historical archives.

Link in bio to the full article if you want to read more 🏛️ by @datachronicles_

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hello world <3
we are introducing @datachronicles.ai, an open window into the raw, in-progress, poetic and speculative worlds we’re exploring in the AI division @domesticdatastreamers
a place for code, prompts, thoughts, conversations and algorithmic dreams

made with love by domestic data streamers by @datachronicles_

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here’s a sneak peek of our projection mapping “Not All Sparks Are Equal” that will be played at the facade of the @dissenyhub thursday, friday and saturday during the @offfest by @datachronicles_

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gesture ethnography for “Uncoded Gestures”

Andrea de Jorio - Gesture in Naples and Gesture in Classical Antiquity

Bruno Munari - Speak Italian: The Fine Art of the Gesture by @datachronicles_

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FESTIVAL SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT: Maria Costa Graell! 🐛

Maria Costa Graell is an AI creative technologist at Domestic Data Streamers and part of the faculty of the Masters in Applied AI for Arts and Design at Elisava. With a transdisciplinary background, her work focuses on interactive processes and critical exploration of generative AI tools. She crafts experimental workflows and visual narratives expanding storytelling possibilities, exploring AI’s potential as creative medium.

At the festival she will host the workshop “AI Sabotage Lab” — brought to you with the support of Elisava, Master in Applied AI for Arts and Design.

Want to learn more about Elisava? Find Marta Handenawer (co-director of the Master’s in Applied AI for Arts and Design) and Andrés Colmenares (director of the Master’s Design for Responsible AI) around the festival 🍏

Get your tickets now at → 🔗 bit.ly/aixd-festival-tickets to join us for the AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI from May 1-3 at Loods6, Amsterdam. See you there! 👋

🎪 AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI is made possible with the support of @stimuleringsfonds, @elisava.school, @the_naf_official, @beeldgeluid, @filmacademie, @cultuurfonds, Jagt Zwolsman fonds, @Loods6, and our lovely AIxD Community Supporters. by @datachronicles_

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