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Unconventional Classifiers and Anti-social Machine Intelligences: Artists Creating Spaces of Contestation and Sensibilities of Difference Across Human-Machine Networks

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dc.creatorMonin, Monica
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-10T10:07:25Z
dc.date.available2020-03-10T10:07:25Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractArtificial intelligence technologies and data structures required for training have become more accessible in recent years and this has enabled artists to incorporate these technologies into their works to various ends. This paper is concerned with the ways in which present day artists are engaging with artificial intelligence, specifically material practices that endeavour to use these technologies and their potential non-human agencies as collaborators with differential objectives to commercial fields. The intentions behind artists’ use of artificial intelligence is varied. Many works, with the accelerating assimilation of artificial intelligence technologies into everyday life, follow a critical path. Such as attempting to unveil how artificial intelligence materially works and is embodied, or to critically work through the potential future adoptions of artificial intelligence technologies into everyday life. However, I diverge from unpacking the criticality of these works and instead follow the suggestion of Bruno Latour to consider their composition. As for Latour, critique implies the capacity to discover a ‘truer’ understanding of reality, whereas composition addresses immanence, how things come together and the emergence of experience. Central to this paper are works that seek to collaborate with artificial intelligence, and to use it to drift out of rather than to affirm or mimic human agency. This goes beyond techniques such as ‘style transfer’ which is seen to support and encode existing human biases or patterns in data. Collaboration with signifies a recognition of a wider field of what constitutes the activity of artistic composition beyond being a singularly human, or AI, act, where composition can be situated in a system. This paper will look at how this approach allows an artist to consider the emerging materiality of a system which they are composing, its resistances and potentials, and the possibilities afforded by the exchange between human and machine intentions in co-composition.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/13534
dc.identifier.urihttp://digicults.org/files/2019/11/dcs-2018-0114.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/14460
dc.languageeng
dc.publishertranscript
dc.publisher.placeBielefeld
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2364-2114
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDigital Culture & Society
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectartificial intelligenceen
dc.subjectAIen
dc.subjectchatboten
dc.subjectHuman-Computer Interactionen
dc.subjectHuman-Machine Interactionen
dc.subjectpattern recognitionen
dc.subjectKünstliche Intelligenzde
dc.subjectKIde
dc.subjectMensch-Computer-Interaktionde
dc.subjectMensch-Maschine-Interaktionde
dc.subjectMustererkennungde
dc.subjectMusterde
dc.subjectErkennungde
dc.subject.ddcddc:006
dc.subject.ddcddc:745
dc.subject.personPeter Dittmer
dc.subject.personShinseungback Kimyonghun
dc.subject.workDIE AMME
dc.subject.workANIMAL CLASSIFIER
dc.titleUnconventional Classifiers and Anti-social Machine Intelligences: Artists Creating Spaces of Contestation and Sensibilities of Difference Across Human-Machine Networksen
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local.coverpage2021-05-29T02:32:52
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttp://digicults.org/files/2019/11/dcs-2018-0114.pdf
local.source.epage237
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleRethinking AI
local.source.spage227
local.source.volume4
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