From I'M NOT A ROBOT project
Periodically, when you make a research on Google, you are redirected on a reCAPTCHA page. The first reason why it happens is because Google suspects you of being a robot or a virus. You have to prove that you are a human by selecting the right images or sections of a sliced image in a rectangular grid, corresponding to a task given by Google. It can be, for example, a photograph of a street divided into multiple squares, and you have to select the ones containing cars or
parts of cars, dogs or trees. The other reason Google is doing it is to teach its own artificial neural net to recognize images. By thus, we become in a way free employees of Google, teaching it’s big data neural nets to better recognize images.
The image recognition is more and more used in all aspects of live: in the search engines, but also in analyzing images from security cameras, scene reconstruction, motion estimation etc. Image understanding can be seen as the disentangling
of symbolic information from image data using models constructed with the aid of geometry, physics, statistics, and learning theory. In the ‘I am not a robot’ project that I have just started, we have to solve similar tasks, just like you are requested to do by Google, but the questions are a little bit different: they deal with emotions, human subjectivity, provocation, morality and other subjects that, for the moment, a machine can’t answer. A machine is always objective, as for us, we are always subjective. This is, for the moment, the fundamental difference between us.
The project starts with simple questions, as the ones you are asked by Google: select the squares containing images with dogs, mountains or bicycles. But then the questions are becoming more and more subjective, ironical and funny, and
further embarrassing, provocative, questioning subjects that are at the edge of political correctness and contemporary social and cultural conflicts. We will end up with totally subjective questions about aesthetics and more globally about what
is, or is not — art.
Tim Parchikov (b. 1983) is a photographer, video artist, laureate of the Kandinsky Prize and the Moscow Art Prize, one of the few Russian artists who have long been represented by European and Asian galleries.
His solo exhibitions have taken place in Rome, Madrid, Paris, Cologne, St. Petersburg and Moscow: Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; DA2 Museum; Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Rome; State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow; The artist participated in the Venice Biennale (2011), the Thessaloniki Photobiennale (2014), the Degu Photobiennale (2021), (2018) and the Lianzhou Photography Festival (2016), as well as the art fairs Art Basel, Frieze, ARCO, Paris Photo.
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