Jakarta Witness

Real Jakarta traffic footage is analysed frame by frame by an object-detection network, its restless bounding boxes counting motorbikes, cars and pedestrians. A small language model reads those counts and proposes a solution in a cold, clinical voice — ban the motorbikes, meter the cars, lift the traffic onto an elevated road.

Each solution is logical on its own terms and quietly catastrophic, because each is reasoned from densities and knows nothing of the lives those densities stand for. A third panel completes the thought: the city reduced to coloured rectangles on a grid. That flattening is the subject of the work.