Pain processing

“Pain processing” is a work that shows the training process of an artificial intelligence system when it is fed with images of repression in the global south. The work is part of the collection of images generated by my research device “Repression file”, created to reflect on the memory mechanisms in the digital image age. I work based on a group of images that show institutional repression found in social media and expose them to different artificial intelligence systems trained to recognize faces and human bodies, thus creating new images along with the philosophical issues related to the contemporary algorithmic processes. I wonder: what is the role of data bases of the files showing bodies suffering the violence of the security forces? What do the images processed by AI show regarding the social struggles and the repressive state violence?