8189 Images
single-channel video installation with a projector, tracing paper
site-specific, Museum für Fotografie Berlin
2022
Machine learning models process images as information, each a dense grid of neighbouring pixels with defined values. The images are collected and categorised for a particular operational task. 

Oxford-120 Flowers, one of the most widely used datasets by 2022, consists of 8189 images of 102 groups of flowers. Each flower is represented in 40 to 258 photographs extracted from the Internet. Introduced as a dataset for an Automated Flower Classification model, the images were labeled and ordered according to the plant species.

The work unpacks the dataset to project the photographs in unchanged order. 8189 images loop across 15 minutes. At the rate of 9 images per second the photographs cannot be viewed individually.


8189 Images
© Eric Bell, Installation view
Museum für Fotografie, Berlin
DE