Multi-media art installation, 2025, by Patrick Monte and Chris Falliers
Drawing on contemporary computer vision technologies, Untitled (Apparitions) explores how algorithmic systems perceive and interpret human presence in public space. The installation detects and tracks people and objects moving through both the installation environment and the surrounding street, generating evolving visuals, text, and sound that respond directly to live activity. These fleeting digital “apparitions” mirror and distort everyday perception, revealing the mimetic logic embedded in today’s visual ecosystem.
Installed directly within a bustling pedestrian corridor in downtown San Francisco, Untitled (Apparitions) invites public participation while foregrounding the often-invisible infrastructures of surveillance, pattern recognition, and data-driven representation that shape contemporary urban experience. By making these systems visible and experiential, the work positions viewers as both participants and subjects within an algorithmically mediated environment.