STATU helped me address the question of Human facing technology in a grounded way. In this performance, humans have sensitivity, they feel, they are subject to emotions that negatively interfere with the execution of an automatic task. The integration of an element (the algorithm) that is astranged to a human soul, provokes a state of suffer and constraint that is not natural to it.

I think this state is both a metaphore and a empirical demonstration of the consequences of the massive assimilation of technologies in our societies. Whether you look at your phone automatically in the metro or when you wake up, or when you talk to connected speakers, or when you interact with a chatbot, or when you follow recommandations on a streaming platform, all these actions have become a simple automatism, taken for granted in our everyday lives, and still, we forgot how we used to live without it before.

To your opinion, what is the most beautiful way of executing an algorithm : with a machine or a human ?

In most people’s mind, the perfect execution of an algorithm is just a basic requirement so we can use the services it provides As a Data Scientist, when I spend a lot of time researching and developping an algorithm, after many tests and roll backs, it is such a pleasure to see it being executed with perfection by a machine. I see in it the achievement of the humain brain power.

However, when the performers in STATU executed the algorithm, the errors did not appear to me a sign of failure or imperfection, but they were beautiful to watch. These errors sublimated their souls because it made them humble. Usually, the human being tends to position himself above all the other living creatures, because he is the one that can extract and conceptualise the biggest amount of knowledge from his environment. He thinks he can touch the Truth with Science. So when you see humility in errors, it is a beautiful way of executing an algorithm.