{"id":4486,"date":"2026-09-17T07:37:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/?p=4486"},"modified":"2026-09-17T07:37:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:37:32","slug":"stefan-szeider-spot-on-ars-electronica-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/stefan-szeider-spot-on-ars-electronica-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefan Szeider \u2014 Spot On, Ars Electronica (2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A visitor sits on a stool under the gaze of a camera. The system then states with confidence who they are, what they feel and what they want. Spot On turns algorithmic recognition into an intimate encounter in which a computed description can appear both precise and profoundly arbitrary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Presented at Ars Electronica 2026, the installation asks not only whether a machine can know us, but what its authority produces when it already claims to do so. Portraiture becomes a negotiation between self-exposure, statistical projection and the power to name.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fragmentation-video\" style=\"position:relative;width:100%;max-width:960px;aspect-ratio:16\/9;margin:1.5rem auto;overflow:hidden\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Q2ZDXggTBJ0?rel=0&#038;playsinline=1\" title=\"Stefan Szeider \u2014 Spot On, Ars Electronica (2026) \u2014 Youtube\" loading=\"lazy\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen style=\"position:absolute;inset:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ars.electronica.art\/negotiatinghumanity\/en\/highlights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Original source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A machine claims to read the identity, emotions and desires of the person seated before it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4642,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions\/4642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}