Espresso exposé

Mona Hedayati, Wouter Maas, Sander Veenhof, 2024

Created by Mona Hedayati, Wouter Maas and Sander Veenhof

Production: Werktank & Impakt

Conceived in the framework of CODE 2024, organized by Werktank (Leuven), Impakt (Utrecht), PrivacySalon CPDP (Brussels) and NøSchool (Nevers)

With the support of the Flemish Authorities, Gemeente Utrecht, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie & Stichting DOEN / VriendenLoterij Fonds

Espresso Exposé is an interactive artwork that shines a light on how AI is increasingly reconfiguring our daily lives. Through interactions with a “coffee recommender” agent, with some unexpected twists, the audience is confronted with the contrast between direct front-end results and opaque back-end processes of machine learning operations. This in turn prompts them to think more deeply about their choice of delegating decision-making to AI.