Search and Destroy

Search and Destroy (working title, 2026) is a series of works exploring how different algorithms perceive our visual world. The centrepiece is a single-channel video in which a custom-made algorithm analyses various video clips. The viewer never sees the original footage — only renditions of extracted information against a white background: tracked faces, bodies, camera movement, compression artefacts, objects, and more.

Mobile phone camera filters, self-driving cars, passport control machines and other everyday technologies make our lives easier, yet they share much of the same underlying technology as AI warfare systems, surveillance networks, and similar tools of control.

The project comprises a single-channel experimental documentary, a series of prints, and a book.

In this project, I wanted to create a work that first feels playful and lighthearted, before hinting of something more sinister and troubling — echoing the approach of my previous work, Collateral.