Drawing on Lavigne's practice of "scrapism" (the use of web scraping for artistic and political ends), the tour began with an attempt to scrape the faces of every single cop in New York City from a variety of websites. Lavigne then provided a performative technical tutorial on how to input this dataset into off-the-shelf facial recognition systems, and make an app able to identify cops with a smartphone. Which cop do you most resemble? Who is the saddest cop in New York City? What is the most popular cop name? Watch the recording to discover the answers to these questions, and more!

Sam Lavigne is an artist and educator whose work deals with data, surveillance, cops, natural language processing, and automation. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Design at UT Austin.

His work The Infinite Campaign was presented on the Media Wall in 2018 - 2019.

Screen Walks is a new series of live-streamed artist/researcher-led explorations of online spaces and artistic strategies designed to illuminate a thriving – often overlooked – digital cultural scene. A new online collaboration between The Photographers’ Gallery, UK and Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.