Dasha's Kitchen: My Magical Grilled Cheese Sandwich Recipe

by Dasha Ilina

2024

Dasha's Kitchen: My Magical Grilled Cheese Sandwich Recipe

by Dasha Ilina

2024

Digital art

Cultural outreach and education

Video art

Artificial intelligence

Installation

Visual arts

Politics and humans rights

Science and technology

Digital art

Cultural outreach and education

Video art

Artificial intelligence

Installation

Visual arts

Politics and humans rights

Science and technology

Dasha’s kitchen: My Magical Grilled Cheese Sandwich Recipe highlights the importance of a critical discussion when it comes to artificial intelligence. Inspired by the online trend of reviewing everything and everyone, this video gives an insight into the questionable processes behind algorithmic surveillance, as well as highlighting the problems behind implementing AI systems on a large scale through a humorous lens of review-based YouTube videos.

Screen, Smartphone, Tablet, Video projector

Suitable for all audiences

15 minute(s)

Multiple languages

Update : 15/02/2025

Dasha's Kitchen presented during the MFRU festival in Maribor (Dasha Ilina)

Dasha's Kitchen presented in the duo exhibition Awake with a stranger's shoes on (Tina Kult)

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A grilled cheese sandwich is sometimes used as a metaphor for an algorithm. Making a grilled cheese is so easy! Only a few simple steps, just like a basic algorithm. Dasha’s kitchen: My Magical Grilled Cheese Sandwich Recipe highlights the importance of a critical discussion when it comes to artificial intelligence. Algorithms are increasingly involved in decision-making in a wide range of professional fields, and the security and surveillance sector, recently dubbed the “safe city,” is no exception. For example, France’s recently adopted algorithmic video surveillance has raised many questions about who really benefits from such technology. Inspired by the online trend of reviewing everything and everyone, this video gives an insight into the questionable processes behind algorithmic surveillance, as well as highlighting the problems behind implementing AI systems on a large scale through a humorous lens of review-based YouTube videos.