Code is Law

Modifications to the German constitution inspired by the book Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neill. The piece intends to sensitise citizens to the modern reality of opaque, unaccountable governance algorithms encroaching on their rights and reinforcing malignant social orders and injustices. In this work, code pertaining to practices such as predictive policing, algorithmic hiring, and always-on home assistants physically obscures German citizens' access to their constitutional rights of privacy, legal certainty, equality, employment and the inviolability of their homes.

Code from predictive policing algorithm printed over and obscuring the German right to legal certainty and equality before the law
Code from predictive policing algorithm printed over and obscuring the German right to legal certainty and equality before the law
Amazon Alexa code printed over and obscuring the German right to the inviolability of the home
Amazon Alexa code printed over and obscuring the German right to the inviolability of the home
This is an amendment (hehe) to the Code is Law work. In the previous version the code was visible to the naked eye and completely obscure the rights printed underneath. However, the way in which governance algorithms work and deny citizens their rights is usually neither visible nor understandable for the average person. The work was modified to reflect this. The underlying rights are visible and therefore seem to be in tact but are made physically inaccessible by the PVC foil onto which code is printed.
This is an amendment (hehe) to the Code is Law work. In the previous version the code was visible to the naked eye and completely obscure the rights printed underneath. However, the way in which governance algorithms work and deny citizens their rights is usually neither visible nor understandable for the average person. The work was modified to reflect this. The underlying rights are visible and therefore seem to be in tact but are made physically inaccessible by the PVC foil onto which code is printed.
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