ARCHIVE FEVER - 2026
Archive Fever is an interactive visual system exploring how artificial intelligence engages with cultural memory.
Archive Fever is a live style classification system built using machine learning and computer vision.
This film documents the system in operation. As a machine repeatedly attempts to identify and understand a fashion image, the image becomes increasingly unstable. Rather than producing certainty, continual classification generates ambiguity.
The work asks: what happens when we look so hard that we stop seeing?