2018.0927 林金童報告

報告者:林金童

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作品名稱help me know the truth (2018) ok
作品作者:Mary Flanagan (US)
作品來源:ARS electronica; http//maryflanagan.com/work/help-me-know-the-truth/
作品說明

[help me know the truth] is a software-driven participatory artwork in which visitors first snap a digital self-portrait (or “selfie”) at the gallery. The image is then sent around the gallery’s network and appears on digital stations located around the gallery. Using the tools of cognitive neuroscience, the faces are manipulated with noise patterns to literally, through time and user input, ‘construct’ the perfect stereotype.

On digital stations in the gallery, visitors are asked to choose between two slightly altered portraits to match the text label shown. By selecting slight variations of the images over time, differing facial features emerge from what are otherwise random patterns that reveal unconscious beliefs about facial features or tendencies related to culture and identity.

[help me know the truth] utilizes Reverse Correlation to investigate how psychological responses to people’s faces might uncover both positive and negative reactions to those who visit the gallery. The viewer/participant chooses between two identical selfies, where different computational noise has been applied. The faces appear somewhat blurry, so the viewer/participant chooses one blurry image over another that might match criteria given. The list of prompts for visitors to the gallery ranges from the politically-charged to the taboo: ”Choose the victim;“ falls after “Indicate the leader“ but might lead to the timely, “Select the terrorist.” Other judgements passed by visitors include identifying which face is the most angelic, kind, criminal, etc. Through choosing faces manipulated by particular noise patterns, facial features emerge that reveal larger thoughts and beliefs about how we fundamentally see each other.

Why do people—even internationally—tend to gravitate towards similar stereotypes? Bias against ’the other‘ is a dangerous impediment to a just Twenty-First Century society, in part encouraged by our own neurological structures that have not caught up with our lived realities. Hyper-scale image-based categorization is being deployed in government and surveillance programs worldwide. These processes demand our critical attention. Where do we find the “truth“ about each other this way?

[help me know the truth] raises awareness about the unconscious stereotypes we all carry in our minds, and how these beliefs become embedded in myriad software systems including computer vision programs. My intent is to both utilize and question how computational techniques can uncover the categorizing systems of the mind, and how software itself is therefore subject to socially constructed fears and values. [help me know the truth] provokes discussion about the types of biases that surround us: that we are under global technological surveillance is troubling; that the humans involved in crafting these systems, the systems themselves, and the people brought in to make final calls on various warnings, alerts, and arrests are all products of unconscious biases, is troubling. Perhaps software systems do not help us know the truth at all.

 

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2018.0927 超永感報告 (範例02)

報告者:吳永感
報告PPT: [PPT]

2018 ARS Electronica (Interactive Art)
作品名稱:Turnstile
作品作者:Ursula Damm (DE)
作品來源作品連結(1)(2)
作品說明

Turnstile, an artwork installed at Schadowstraße underground station in Dusseldorf, selected in conjunction with a competition to artistically enhance the city’s Wehrhahn line. 繼續閱讀

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2018.0927 林窕站報告 (範例01)

報告者:林窕站
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文獻題目:Disruptive Aesthetics for Interactive Artwork
文獻作者:Je-ho Oh, Chung-kon Shi
文獻來源ISEA 2015 (pdf)
文獻摘要
In this research, we studied the disruptive aesthetics of interactive artwork based on the activity theory. The audience engages in interactive artwork not only for the pleasure of participation but also for the disruptive aesthetics of social values in the organization of human life. 繼續閱讀

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2018.0913 課程介紹

科技藝術書報討論

任課教師﹕黃致傑 老師 (+許素朱老師、林經堯老師、劉士達老師、蔡奇宏老師)
課程網址 : http://www.fbilab.org/nthu/aet/seminar
上課時間 : 研究所 週(四) 15:30AM-17:20PM
上課地點:南大校區教育大樓 R2034

Course description(課程目標)
本課程帶領學生了解國際最新科技藝術創作與研究的趨勢,從該領域最重要之學術會議、期刊及藝術展覽活動,選讀藝術論文及作品探討報告。授課中將會邀多方領域之師資一同參與,給予跨領域面向的討論交流。課程由授課老師指定閱讀論文或科技藝術作品清單給學生選讀,從報告與討論交流中,讓學生獲得科技藝術領域的作品創作、技術研發能力,以及論文撰寫及投稿的關鍵能力。(More …

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