Psychomety ‘Dissected Agent’
environmental probe, Mpls/MN
Year 2019 | research exhibitINFO
*Environmental probes approach the field of immersion in which our existence is caught. These serve as tools for legibility within the spaces of intuition and perception.
The 'Dissected Agent' probe delves into the environment of psychometric profiling, where proprietary algorithms map the social body onto the so-called big-five model.
The 'Dissected Agent' probe delves into the environment of psychometric profiling, where proprietary algorithms map the social body onto the so-called big-five model.
The latter is at the center of these probabilistic algorithms, using digital records of human behavior to predict the shape of a personality. The images of these point clouds are a representation of psychometric profiling. To what extent do people belong in the situation in which they find themselves? What does an ecstatic relationship with one’s situation entail?
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With new virtual forms of admission—online social systems—we are surrounded by a highly structured exteriority. The joy we derive from our situation fuels their economy. The presupposed human of these systems is a mutable and controllable entity—statistically generic and manipulable.
The measurement of these algorithms is primarily of the psychological dimension of human agency and its particular social networked emplacements. These systems exclude the particular judgment, intellectual, or ethical aspects of human action, also excluding any possibility of political subjectivity.