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Google Maps Hacks, performance, Berlin 2020.

99 second hand smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps. Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route to avoid being stuck in traffic. taken in Berlin, Germany by @simonweckert

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A single continuous pattern, printed across a shirt, is enough to make an AI detection system stop seeing a person standing right in front of it.

Berlin-based artist Simon Weckert built Digital Camouflage in direct response to a real deployment: AI video analysis Berlin police began piloting this August at Kottbusser Tor. The pattern works as an adversarial attack, generated through a method called TC-EGA to solve the segment-missing problem that broke earlier anti-detection patches whenever fabric folded. Worn in public, it turns bounding boxes and "person" labels into a question you can watch fail in real time.

Simon Weckert @simonweckert — Digital Camouflage — Berlin, Germany

Images courtesy of the artist

urdesignmag.com — link in bio

#SimonWeckert #DigitalCamouflage #AISurveillance #AdversarialFashion #BerlinArt by @simonweckert

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taken in Singapore by @simonweckert

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Was haben KI und Künstler:innen auf dem Bauernhof zu suchen? Wie kann man messen, ob eine Kuh sich wohlfühlt? Und wie verändern KI, Automatisierung und digitale Systeme die Landwirtschaft und damit grundlegende Bereiche unseres Lebens? Um diese und weitere Fragen wird es bei der Projektvorstellung von „School of Cow Comfort“ gehen.

Am Donnerstag, 24. September 2026, von 19–21 Uhr.

Zum Auftakt von „School of Cow Comfort“ geben die
!Mediengruppe Bitnik (@mediengruppe_bitnik) und Künstler Simon Weckert (@simonweckert) Einblicke in ihre Recherche zu Kunst und KI auf dem Bauernhof. Dabei fragen sie, wie neue Technologien das Verhältnis zwischen Mensch, Tier und Landwirtschaft verändern. Prof. Dr. Tim Römer von der Universität Osnabrück (@uniosnabrueck) ergänzt das mit Einblicken in aktuelle Entwicklungen und den Einsatz von KI in der Landwirtschaft.

Im Anschluss kommen die Akteur:innen von „School of Cow Comfort“ miteinander ins Gespräch, moderiert von Sylvia Sadzinski (@sylv_inski), die das Projekt gemeinsam mit der !Mediengruppe Bitnik kuratiert.

Mehr Infos findest du in unserem Programmheft oder auf unserer Website (Link in Bio). Eintritt frei.

Das Projekt wird im Programm Kunst & KI der Kulturstiftung des Bundes (@kulturstiftungdesbundes) sowie von dem Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (@bundeskultur) gefördert. #ProgrammKunstKI #KunstUndKI

English version in the comments!

Foto: Noemi Garay by @simonweckert

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Think AI is invincible? Think again. 🛑🤖
@simonweckert reveals the mind-blowing trick that completely breaks Artificial Intelligence: Adversarial Attacks.
Just a few invisible pixel changes or a tiny sticker is enough to trick facial recognition or completely blind a self-driving car.

📲 Send this to that one friend who thinks AI is about to take over the world. 🌍

If you wish to go deep, attend Simon’s Machine Unlearning course here: https://digitalcamouflage.org/shop/Support-Machine-Unlearning-Pay-What-You-Want-p843094895

For more info and the image used, see https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.08945

#adversarialattack #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #techhacks by @simonweckert

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🫥📡 @simonweckert’s Digital Camouflage uses textile patterns to trick AI surveillance cameras monitoring public space.

The garment’s hypnotic patterns cause tracking algorithms to misread human figures, rendering the wearer invisible to the machine.

Rather than promising total anonymity or evasion, @digital.camouflage.fashion acts as a wearable protest against the non-consensual automated processing of our bodies in the city.

Discover the work during #DDW26 at @sectie_c .
📸 © Simon Weckert

*The Demonstrations use a generic open-source object-detection system. The work makes no claim about any specific government system, which is precisely the point, as closed surveillance networks remain impossible for the public to test.

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Dutch Design Week 2026
🗓️ 17-25 October 2026
📍 Eindhoven by @simonweckert

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How do AIs actually "see"? 🤖👀
@simonweckert from Digital Camouflage breaks down the basics of how the YOLO algorithm works.
YOLO = You Only Look Once. No slow, pixel-by-pixel scanning. It looks at an image once and detects objects instantly in real-time. ⚡️🔥
👇 With AI tracking moving this fast, where do we draw the line on public surveillance? Is it going too far? Let’s debate in the comments! 🛑
📌 Save this to level up your tech knowledge and hit follow for more. 🚀
B-roll is partly AI-generated.
#DigitalCamouflage #YOLO #AI #ComputerVision #TechEthics Privacy Surveillance FutureTech taken in Kottbusser Tor by @simonweckert

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Computer vision and object recognition are developing rapidly and are increasingly being used in public surveillance systems. DIGITAL CAMOUFLAGE is a portable statement and an experiment on how algorithmic perception can be deceived. by @simonweckert

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How does Digital Camouflage work?
Simon explains the design process behind the viral shirt designed to make you invisible to object detection.
For more info, visit our webpage, link in bio.

*Art object - design concept for aesthetic/style purposes — not intended for tactical or military use.

#DigitalCamouflage #StealthStyle #TechWear #StreetwearInnovation #CamoReimagined FutureFashion OOTD DropAlert taken in U-Bahn Kottbusser Tor by @simonweckert

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Simon Weckert @simonweckert likes to mess with machines

99 phones can convince Google Maps there’s a traffic jam. A patterned jacket can make you disappear from computer vision. A Bluetooth jammer can suddenly silence your headphones.
For Weckert, making technology fail is a way to understand how it works. His playful interventions “open the black box” of algorithms—and remind us that systems aren’t as objective or untouchable.

Explore In Focus: Simon Weckert and discover his works on CIFRA by @simonweckert

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Algorithms are a new form of storytelling.

Whose ideas shape what we believe? What shapes our reality? And which systems should we stop trusting?
Three questions about power with Simon Weckert, as part of POWER ON/OFF.

Explore Simon Weckert @simonweckert In Focus on CIFRA. by @simonweckert

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This month, Berlin switched on its first AI video surveillance at Kottbusser Tor — the first camera legally allowed to film the city's public space without any specific cause.The system is a behaviour scanner: software that sorts what every passer-by does into "normal" and "suspicious". To isolate a punch, systems like this also have to classify dancing, hugging and countless harmless gestures — everyone is read, all the time. It will raise an alarm when a person lies down; on a square that is home to many people without housing, they will trigger it simply by existing. The model used is being kept secret — no one outside can test what the software sees, misses, or gets wrong. And Kottbusser Tor is only the template: Warschauer Brücke, Alexanderplatz and Görlitzer Park are next.What does a watched square change? People before any alarm ever fires. How much trust does a system deserve that no one is allowed to examine? More on the project link in bio

🇩🇪 Berlin hat am Kottbusser Tor die erste KI-Videoüberwachung der Stadt gestartet — die erste Kamera, die den öffentlichen Raum anlasslos filmen darf. Die Software sortiert das Verhalten aller Passant:innen in „normal" und „verdächtig", schlägt Alarm, wenn jemand liegt — an einem Platz, an dem viele wohnungslose Menschen leben — und ihr Hersteller wird geheim gehalten. Warschauer Brücke, Alexanderplatz und Görlitzer Park folgen. Mehr Infos und eine Karte aller Kameras am Platz: Link in der Bio.

Map Source: https://osmcamera.dihe.de

1: Schlesisches Tor, Berlin
3: Kottbusser Tor, Berlin

#Berlin #AIsurveillance #SurveillanceArt #DigitalCamouflage #KottiUnsichtbar taken in Kottbusser Tor by @simonweckert

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