Nicolas Gourault is an artist and filmmaker based in Paris (FR) with a background in visual arts and visual studies. He has worked with Forensic Architecture before graduating from Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts. His work is imbued with this double training, navigating between online open-source investigations and the critical use of new media as documentary tools. His films and video installations explore the power relationships embedded in technologies and tries to build counter-narratives through the use of situated testimony and experimental image-making. His artworks have been exhibited in film festivals and contemporary art venues.

VO (2020)

France | 17′ | 12/2020 | documentary
A deadly accident between a self-driving car and a pedestrian sets off an investigation about the role of human workers in the training of driverless cars. Testimonies from vehicle operators guide us through a night shift where the landscape merges with data from the car’s sensors.

Their Eyes (2025)

France | 23′ | 02/2025 | documentary
How does a machine learn to read the world? Testimonies and screen recordings introduce the experience of online micro-workers from the Global South: their job is to teach the AI of self-driving cars to navigate the streets of the Global North. As they investigate the images they receive from the US, they imagine micro-strategies in order to organize and hack back the system exploiting their hands and eyes.

The screening will be hold after a workshop with Nicolas Gourault within the context of (Un)learning Digitalities: With whose eyes ? Hidden labour and infrastructure in the AI race.