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--- art_ai [2025/04/07 21:49] – [Monday: Introduction to Machine Learning] fstalder@zhdk.ch
+++ art_ai [2025/04/11 09:10] (current) – [Thursday: Subjectivity and Personas] fstalder@zhdk.ch
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 Presence, at least 80%
-Contribution to discussions in class¨
+Contribution to discussions in class
 Participation in group work and presentation of results.
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   * Introduction to the course and overview of the week
   * **Group Work**
-    * Session Zero: What persona does the AI app you are using have` What does it expect from the user?
+    * Session Zero: What is the persona of the AI you are using? What does it expect from the user?
   * 5 Minute presentation by each group
-  * Artist presentation & discussion by Nora Al-Badri
+  * Artist presentation & discussion by Nora Al-Badri. https://www.nora-al-badri.de/works-index
+      * The Other Nefretiti
+      * Nefretiti Bot
+      * Fossil Futures
+      * Babylonian Visions
 === Afternoon ===
-  * Technological Persona. Input by Felix Stalder
+  * {{ ::fs_personas_presentation.pdf |Technological Persona}}. Input by Felix Stalder
   * ** Group Work:** Reading, Presenting, Discussion
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     * Someone, [[https://lauren-mccarthy.com/SOMEONE]] (NA)
   * Mikala Hyldig Dal: Eco Oracle, [[https://www.mikala-dal.art/]] (NA)
-  * Tega Brain, Alex Nathanson and Benedetta Piantella. Solar Protocol, [[https://solarprotocol.net/index.html]] (FS)
+  * Tega Brain, Alex Nathanson and Benedetta Piantella. Solar Protocol, [[https://tegabrain.com/Solar-Protocol]] (FS)
   * Feileacan Kirkbride McCormick and Sofia Crespo. Entangled Others, [[https://entangledothers.studio]] (NA)
   * Nora Al Badri, Nefertiti Bot, [[https://www.nora-al-badri.de/works-index#nefertitibot]]
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   * Caroline Sniders, Feminist Data Set, 2017 — Current, [[https://carolinesinders.com/feminist-data-set/]]
   * Linda Dunia Rebeiz, Once Upon A Garden, [[https://onceuponagarden.xyz/]]
-  * Holly Herndon: holly+  und  xhairymutantx  [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZe5fnFB-ZE]] (FS & NA)
+  * Holly Herndon: [[https://youtu.be/qPW_rdUgV_8|holly+]]  und  xhairymutantx  [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZe5fnFB-ZE]] (FS & NA)
   * AJL: Voicing Erase, 2020, [[https://www.ajl.org/voicing-erasure]] (FS)
   * Maya Indira Ganesh: A is for another [[https://aisforanother.net/pages/project.html]]
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 **Group Work**
-  * Introduction
+**Task:** Create a concept/ prototype that responds to the topic of subjectivity and persona (AI and/or user) through a unconventional or underrepresented approach that can be realized performative, designed  or programmed, or otherwise.
-  * First Session
+It doesn’t need to fully function, but should make the personas, relations or interactions visible or experiential.
+**Steps:**
+  - come up in the group with personals, relations, interactions of different actors (AI and or user)
+  - determine what it does require (e.g. what story, ressources, interface)
+  - come up with prototype, design mock-up or performance
+Time to present on Friday 10 minutes each, 5 minutes discussion each.
 === Afternoon ===
-Input Nora Al-Badri: **Post-Colonial Perspectives & who is speaking**
+Input Nora Al-Badri: **{{ ::al_badri_eth_zhdk_postcolonial.pdf |APost-Colonial Perspectives & who is speaking}}**
 **Further reading:**
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 Guests:
-**Dr. [[https://ets.ethz.ch/people/person-detail.MzM5NzY0.TGlzdC80NTY5LDIwMTgyMzYxMDk=.html|Kebene Wodajo]], **Lecturer at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETHZ  "**Subjectivity, Personhood, and AI Systems: Afro-Communitarian Gaze**   The modernist gaze narrates the story of data and data-driven technologies, such as AI systems, through an individualistic, state-centric, and market-oriented lens. Within this narrative, a person is conceptualised as an individual data subject who exercises control and retains rights over their data, while relying on state-centric frameworks for protection—or so the prevailing rhetoric suggests. But what if we were to shift our perspective, to cast our gaze towards the 'otherwise', towards the non-mainstream, towards pluralistic ways of seeing, being, and becoming? What if we viewed data and data-driven technologies in their full complexity—not merely as products/commodities, but rather as intricate sociotechnical, material, discursive, and more-than-human?   This lecture invites students to embark together on this journey towards the 'otherwise', guided by Afro-communitarian perspectives. This viewpoint begins with 'we' rather than 'I', emphasises multiplicity over singularity, and foregrounds multiple ontologies and diverse forms of becoming. Adopting this gaze neither erases individuality nor diminishes the pursuit of equality, fairness, and transparency in AI systems. Rather, these concepts are illuminated in views from the 'otherwise'. They are understood not merely as claims grounded in legally prescribed rights but as necessities arising from the inherent multiplicity within individuality itself—captured vividly in various Afro-communitarian principles, from the well-known 'I am because we are' to ‘//Namummaa’//. This gaze remains deeply attentive to personhood as entangled within plurality and relationality; and subjectivity, as a form of irreducibly emergent becoming.
+**Dr. [[https://ets.ethz.ch/people/person-detail.MzM5NzY0.TGlzdC80NTY5LDIwMTgyMzYxMDk=.html|Kebene Wodajo]] **Lecturer at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETHZ
+"**Subjectivity, Personhood, and AI Systems: Afro-Communitarian Gaze**
+The modernist gaze narrates the story of data and data-driven technologies, such as AI systems, through an individualistic, state-centric, and market-oriented lens. Within this narrative, a person is conceptualised as an individual data subject who exercises control and retains rights over their data, while relying on state-centric frameworks for protection—or so the prevailing rhetoric suggests. But what if we were to shift our perspective, to cast our gaze towards the 'otherwise', towards the non-mainstream, towards pluralistic ways of seeing, being, and becoming? What if we viewed data and data-driven technologies in their full complexity—not merely as products/commodities, but rather as intricate sociotechnical, material, discursive, and more-than-human?   This lecture invites students to embark together on this journey towards the 'otherwise', guided by Afro-communitarian perspectives. This viewpoint begins with 'we' rather than 'I', emphasises multiplicity over singularity, and foregrounds multiple ontologies and diverse forms of becoming. Adopting this gaze neither erases individuality nor diminishes the pursuit of equality, fairness, and transparency in AI systems. Rather, these concepts are illuminated in views from the 'otherwise'. They are understood not merely as claims grounded in legally prescribed rights but as necessities arising from the inherent multiplicity within individuality itself—captured vividly in various Afro-communitarian principles, from the well-known 'I am because we are' to ‘//Namummaa’//. This gaze remains deeply attentive to personhood as entangled within plurality and relationality; and subjectivity, as a form of irreducibly emergent becoming.
 **Further Readings**:
-  * Mhlambi, S. (2020). [[https://perma.cc/Q5ZL-TTD8|From rationality to relationality: Ubuntu as an ethical and human rights framework for artificial intelligence governance]]. In //Car center for human rights policy//, discussion paper series 220–009.
+  * Mhlambi, S. (2020). [[https://perma.cc/Q5ZL-TTD8|From rationality to relationality: Ubuntu as an ethical and human rights framework for artificial intelligence governance]]. In //Car center for human rights policy//, discussion paper series 220–009. {{ ::ccdp_2020-009_sabelo-1.pdf |local copy}}
   * Law, John (2015). [[https://doi.org/10.1080/1600910x.2015.1020066|What's wrong with a one-world world? ]]//Distinktion//: //Journal of Social Theory//, 16(1) pp. 126–139
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   * Adorno, Theodor W. //The Authoritarian Personality//. La Vergne: Verso, 2019.
   * Jung, C. G., and R. F. C. Hull. //Two Essays on Analytical Psychology//. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 1966.
-  * Cooper, Alan. //The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity//. 15th ed. Indianapolis, Indiana: SAMS, 2015. \\ Young, Indi. //Mental Models//. Sebastopol: Rosenfeld Media, 2011.
+  * Cooper, Alan. //The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity//. 15th ed. Indianapolis, Indiana: SAMS, 2015.
+  * Young, Indi. //Mental Models//. Sebastopol: Rosenfeld Media, 2011.
 ===== Friday: Group Work and Presentations =====
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 **Group Work**
-  * Session Four: finishing up & preparing the presentation
+  * Session Four: finishing up & preparing the presentation (09:00 - 10:45)
-**Presention**: each 10 Minute Presentation, 10 Minute Diskussion
+**Presention**: each 10 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion (11:00-13:00)