Thursday, September 19, 2019

Incantations for the Compiled Self

In reading Wendy Chun's piece, On "Sourcery," or Code as Fetish I couldn't help but think about it in step with Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen's latest collaboration, Imagenet Roulette.  The project is meant as a provocation, using a neural net trained on the "Person" categories within the ImageNet dataset. Enter at your own risk. 

https://imagenet-roulette.paglen.com/

2 comments:

  1. This gave me old hag twice, so I don't like this AT ALL.

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  2. We will definitely return to this when we look at AI!

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