Similar to covers webcam covers the ShutterCam gives citizen control when they are being monitored. In the most recent deployment of The Shuttercam, Ajax and local residents can physically see when the cameras are recording or not.

Data-technology and AI in the cityscape is outpacing plans from urban planners & architects. Countless cameras, sensors and algorithms register, analyze and control what we do, how we feel and even who we are. In the art-science installation AI INCUBATOR multi-media artist Vladimir Grafov evokes, in co-creation with architects/researchers Federica Cefis Colombo and Frank Suurenbroek, the advance of AI in the urban environment. The installation raises the question how to collaborate with this new ‘technological species’.