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 +====== Art and AI. Machines Visions. ======
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 **Date:** Week 9, March 1 - 5, 2021 **Date:** Week 9, March 1 - 5, 2021
  
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   * active participation in group activity   * active participation in group activity
   * active individual work (via pad)   * active individual work (via pad)
-  * fictional short story, 2-3 pages, to be handed until Sunday, April 26. (Upload to Paul)+  * fictional short story, 2-3 pages, to be handed until Sunday, March 7 (via email)
  
 ===== Course Abstract ===== ===== Course Abstract =====
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 In this module, we will look at a recent wave of artistic and theoretical work that tries to open this black box, creating a language and an aesthetics for critical engagement. In particular, we will look at image recognition AI, what the artist Trevor Paglen calls “predatory vision” and the data scientist Joy Buolamwini calls the “coded gaze”, referring to gender and racial biases in these systems. In this module, we will look at a recent wave of artistic and theoretical work that tries to open this black box, creating a language and an aesthetics for critical engagement. In particular, we will look at image recognition AI, what the artist Trevor Paglen calls “predatory vision” and the data scientist Joy Buolamwini calls the “coded gaze”, referring to gender and racial biases in these systems.
  
-===== Course Materials =====+===== Course Works and Notes =====
  
 **Pad:**[[http://pad.vmk.zhdk.ch/machine_visions]] **Pad:**[[http://pad.vmk.zhdk.ch/machine_visions]]
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 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJjv_OeiHmo| The racist soap dispenser]] @ Facebook, 2017 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJjv_OeiHmo| The racist soap dispenser]] @ Facebook, 2017
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 +[[https://portraitai.app| PortraitAI]] [[https://twitter.com/liatrisbian/status/1368960616023666688| Sarah L. Fossheim's experiment with poc faces]]
  
 **Colour Bias in Analogue Photography** **Colour Bias in Analogue Photography**
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 +[[https://kimon.hosting.nyu.edu/physical-electrical-digital/items/show/1009|The Shirley Card]]
  
 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d16LNHIEJzs&feature=emb_logo| Color film was built for white people]], 4:39, 2015 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d16LNHIEJzs&feature=emb_logo| Color film was built for white people]], 4:39, 2015
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 ===== Tuesday Afternoon ===== ===== Tuesday Afternoon =====
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 +Timnit Gebru: [[https://youtu.be/23MxOh99N54?t=197 |Computer Vision: Who is Helped and Who is Harmed?]] (02.2021), 03-46
 +   * Watch the talk and note the main points in the pad.
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 +  * [[https://twitter.com/BLMPrivacyBot|BLMPrivacyBot]]
 +  * Rothkopf, Joshua. 2020. “[[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/movies/deepfakes-documentary-welcome-to-chechnya.html|Deepfake Technology Enters the Documentary World]].” The New York Times.
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 Trevor Paglen Trevor Paglen
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   * Read these four short parts. Select four sentences that you find interesting and copy them to the pad. Please organize them in the pad according to the section.   * Read these four short parts. Select four sentences that you find interesting and copy them to the pad. Please organize them in the pad according to the section.
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-Timnit Gebru: [[thtps://youtu.be/23MxOh99N54 |Computer Vision: Who is Helped and Who is Harmed?]] (02.2021), 03-46 
-   * Watch the talk and note main points in the pad. 
  
 ===== Wednesday Morning ===== ===== Wednesday Morning =====
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 **Reading your character (and future behavior) from your face** **Reading your character (and future behavior) from your face**
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-AI "Gaydar" Original Paper 
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-Wang, Yilun, and Kosinski, Michal. 2017. “Deep Neural Networks Are More Accurate than Humans at Detecting Sexual Orientation from Facial Images.” [[https://osf.io/zn79k/]] 
  
 Levin, Sam. 2017. “[[http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/12/artificial-intelligence-face-recognition-michal-kosinski|Face-Reading AI Will Be Able to Detect Your Politics and IQ, Professor Says.]]” The Guardian (Sept. 12). Levin, Sam. 2017. “[[http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/12/artificial-intelligence-face-recognition-michal-kosinski|Face-Reading AI Will Be Able to Detect Your Politics and IQ, Professor Says.]]” The Guardian (Sept. 12).
  
-Critique of this paper+**Critique of this paper**
  
 Agüera y Arca, Blaise, Margret Mitchell, and Alexander Todorov. 2018. “[[https://medium.com/@blaisea/do-algorithms-reveal-sexual-orientation-or-just-expose-our-stereotypes-d998fafdf477|Do Algorithms Reveal Sexual Orientation or Just Expose Our Stereotypes?]]” Medium (Jan 11). Agüera y Arca, Blaise, Margret Mitchell, and Alexander Todorov. 2018. “[[https://medium.com/@blaisea/do-algorithms-reveal-sexual-orientation-or-just-expose-our-stereotypes-d998fafdf477|Do Algorithms Reveal Sexual Orientation or Just Expose Our Stereotypes?]]” Medium (Jan 11).
  
-A fundamental critique of the approach+**A fundamental critique of the approach** 
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 +Agüera y Arca, Blaise, Margret Mitchell, and Alexander Todorov. 2017. “[[https://medium.com/@blaisea/physiognomys-new-clothes-f2d4b59fdd6a | Physiognomy’s New Clothes.]]” Medium (May 7). 
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 +**Further reading** 
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 +Wang, Yilun, and Kosinski, Michal. 2017. “[[https://osf.io/zn79k|Deep Neural Networks Are More Accurate than Humans at Detecting Sexual Orientation from Facial Images.]]” ((Original " ai gaydar" paper)
  
-Agüera y Arca, Blaise, Margret Mitchell, and Alexander Todorov. 2017. “[[https://medium.com/@blaisea/physiognomys-new-clothes-f2d4b59fdd6a]]Physiognomy’s New Clothes.” Medium (May 7). 
  
 ===== Thursday ===== ===== Thursday =====
  
-**Artist Talk and Workshop by Adam Harvey**+ 
 +**Artist Talk and Workshop by Adam Harvey** (Full day) 
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 +Adam Harvey's [[https://ahprojects.com | Art projects about privacy, computer vision, and surveillance]] 
  
 ==== Friday Morning ==== ==== Friday Morning ====
  
 Discussion of Readings Wednesday Afternoon Discussion of Readings Wednesday Afternoon
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 +[[https://web.br.de/interaktiv/ki-bewerbung/|Fairness oder Vorurteil. Einsatz Künstlicher Intelligenz bei der Jobbewerbung fragwürdig]] Bayrischer Rundfunk. 2021 [[https://web.br.de/interaktiv/ki-bewerbung/en| English Version]]
  
 Hito Steyerl (2016) [[https://youtu.be/iyEBXewn7ys?t=1571 | Keynote Conversation: Anxious to Act]] transmediale 2016, 23 Min Hito Steyerl (2016) [[https://youtu.be/iyEBXewn7ys?t=1571 | Keynote Conversation: Anxious to Act]] transmediale 2016, 23 Min
  
 Steyerl, Hito. 2016. “[[https://www.e-flux.com/journal/72/60480/a-sea-of-data-apophenia-and-pattern-mis-recognition/|A Sea of Data: Apophenia and Pattern (Mis-)Recognition.]]” e-flux Journal (april) Steyerl, Hito. 2016. “[[https://www.e-flux.com/journal/72/60480/a-sea-of-data-apophenia-and-pattern-mis-recognition/|A Sea of Data: Apophenia and Pattern (Mis-)Recognition.]]” e-flux Journal (april)
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 +Salvaggio, Eryk. 2020. “[[https://www.cyberneticforests.com/news/creative-strategies-for-algorithmic-resistance|Creative Strategies for Algorithmic Resistance!]]” Cybernetic Forests (June 29).
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 Writing of short story Writing of short story
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 +==== Material added after the course ====
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 +Schiller, Devon. 2020. [[https://networkcultures.org/longform/2020/06/22/on-the-basis-of-face-biometric-art-as-critical-practice-its-history-and-politics|On the Basis of Face: Biometric Art as Critical Practice, Its History and Politics]]. Amsterdam: Insitute for Network Cultures. 
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