“Observer Unit 0” is what happens when biometric tech gets dressed up for a gallery opening. At the center: a polished, black sculptural head—eerily smooth, vaguely childlike, definitely watching. Hidden inside its skull is a compact camera and 3D sensor, silently mapping bodies, faces, distances—data that nobody agreed to give, but gave anyway by just being there.
Surrounding the figure is a ring of monitors, each feeding back glitched, delayed fragments of what the sculpture sees. It’s not beautiful. It’s not evil. It’s just… quietly efficient. In a world where surveillance is rebranded as “smart” and privacy is a UX problem, “Observer Unit 0” asks: how much does something need to look like a human before we trust it? And how little does it take to watch us?
It’s not collecting your data (probably). But it definitely could.
