Watching “Machines” See

Input: 07.09.2021

Recognizing visual patterns: Edges, Shapes, and Colours

!Mediengruppe Bitnik SAME SAME. WATCHING ALGORITHMS - CABARET VOLTAIRE EDITION 2015

Mario Klingemann & Simon Doury X Degrees of Separation, 2018

Attributing Meaning; Training sets and labeling

!Mediengruppe Bitnik! Dada. State of the Reference, 2017

Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen, “Excavating AI: The Politics of Training Sets for Machine Learning (September 19, 2019) https://excavating.ai (taxonomy - class - labeled image) Training Humans. Fondazine Prada (12 Sep 2019 – 24 Feb 2020)

Politics of Labeling: Making Categories, outsourcing labor (see below Mechanical Turk)

Boundaries between human and the non-human

Dvorsky, George. 2013. “Freakishly Realistic Telemarketing Robots Are Denying They’re Robots.”. Io9.Gizmodo.Com (Dec. 12). 2013.

Dvorsky, George. 2013. “Robot-Denying Telemarketing Robot May Not Actually Be a Robot.” Io9.Gizmodo.Com (Dec. 18). 2013.

MTurk: “artificial artificial intelligence“ (Jeff Bezos)

Hitlin, Paul. 2016. “Research in the Crowdsourcing Age, a Case Study.” Pew Research Center (July).

Crockett, Zachary. 2019. “How Much Money Can You Make on Amazon Mechanical Turk?” The Hustle (July 13). 2019.

Latour, Bruno. 1989. “The Moral Dilemmas of a Safety-Belt.” Translated by Lydia Davis. Traduction Inédite En Anglais.

Google Duplex: Let AI make a phone call for you (2018 demo, real-life social problems and ecological costs).

Kate Crawford& Vladan Joler (2018) Anatomy of an AI System.

Authorship, Copyright and AI

Portrait of Edmond Belamy, 2018 by Obvious (Pierre Fautrel, Hugo Caselles-Dupré, and Gauthier Vernier) Sold for $432,500 at Christie’s (Oct 25), (selling estimate: 10'000)

Obvious Group

Robbie Barrat

Vincent, James. 2018. “How Three French Students Used Borrowed Code to Put the First AI Portrait in Christie’s.” The Verge. (October 23).

Christie’s. 2018. “The First Piece of AI-Generated Art to Come to Auctio Christie’s.” Christies.Com (Dec. 12).

Boddington, Ruby. 2020. “‘These Are Important Visual Moments’: Artist Robbie Barrat Pushes, Tests and Breaks AI in His Works.” It’s Nice That (February 24).

Cornelia Sollfrank: Net.Art Generator Smart Artists make the machine do the work, since 1997

Legal Perspective, Plug-in Basel

Stalder, Felix. 2014. “Urheberrecht - Wenn Das Recht Kunstfeindlich Wird.” Kunstbulletin, 2014.