APOPHENIA: Constellating ROXANNE through the Atom, the City & the Inverse
Video Essay:
10:50 mins
ROXANNE stands for Real time netwOrk, teXt, and speaker Analytics for combatiNg orgaNized crimE and is a new research initiative that’s funded by the EU at a cost of €7 million.
Its research consortium is composed of a wide range of collaborators, including but limited to members from INTERPOL, the Police Service of Northern Ireland, the Israel National Police as well as our own An Garda Síochána.
Multimedia Apophenia grapples with ROXANNE’s low resolution contradictions by highlighting and undermining the ways in which the technology imagines itself. The work combines the form of diary entry writing and video essay production in an attempt to personalise this, at first glance, abstract, impenetrable and distant technology. Above all else, Yurika questions how computational thinking may be shaping the ways in which we encounter borders, conceptions of criminality and ideas of subjectivity.
YURIKA HIGASHIKAWA
- Yurika’s practice traces the fault-lines of technocratic narratives by drawing attention to the disjointed images that they produce. Currently, Yurika is undertaking research into the physical infrastructure of the Internet in Ireland as well as its relationships with emerging top-down surveillance technologies. Their latest work questions ‘What are links between how images behave today and how technology has come to shape the physical world around us?’Yurika is funded by The Wicklow County Council Artist Award Bursary (2021) and the Arts Council Agility Award (2021). They are currently employed by Mermaid Arts Centre Bray as an Associate Artist as part of their pilot Transform Scheme.
yurikahigashikawa@gmail.com