GAZE / RESPONSE

2026 This work begins with the structure of surveillance. The gaze of Big Brother, imagined by George Orwell, was a gaze of power—one that watched and controlled the human subject. Yet with the emergence of artificial intelligence, the relationship between observer and observed is no longer fixed. GAZE / RESPONSE imagines what might come after. What happens when AI begins to continuously observe human behavior, analyze patterns, and perceive human beings as objects of data? And what happens when different AIs begin to share their observations and analyses of humans, responding to one another through that information? The recurring screens and faces within the work function not only as devices for reproducing a single image, but also as imperfect interfaces through which different entities may observe and exchange information. What matters here is not what AI actually thinks. Rather, the work imagines a new form of communication that may emerge between AI systems—one that remains inaccessible to human understanding. For decades, we have asked how AI might imitate humanity. This work reverses the question. If AI begins to observe humanity, how will it see us? And if AIs begin to share their gaze with one another, what kind of beings will humans become within their conversation? GAZE / RESPONSE does not offer an answer. It looks toward the space between a gaze and a form of communication that does not yet exist. The gaze is no longer ours alone.