Uploaded December 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
CLASSES is a video essay exploring the entanglements between machine learning classification and social class(ification). The exhibit takes place in a simulated model of a London council estate, where the artist lives. Machine and human voices playfully narrate aspects of her in-depth research into accented speech recognition, natural language processing and public space surveillance, to understand how historical and cultural biases around social class are being translated into code and how this affects people’s material conditions.
For more information, visit dublin.sciencegallery.com/bias.
CLASSES is a video essay exploring the entanglements between machine learning classification and social class(ification). The exhibit takes place in a simulated model of a London council estate, where the artist lives. Machine and human voices playfully narrate aspects of her in-depth research into accented speech recognition, natural language processing and public space surveillance, to understand how historical and cultural biases around social class are being translated into code and how this affects people’s material conditions.
For more information, visit dublin.sciencegallery.com/bias.
