45min{ 10min{ 1min apresentacao We're undergraduate students at Universidade de São Paulo - Brasil CC/CM 1min gecid gecid means group of critical experiences in digital infrastructures and it's composed of reserchers from different fields of knowledge: visual arts, music, architecture, engineering and computer science. Artistic Methodologies We're based at the Inovation Center of Sao Paulo University and our work is made of a set of experiences which aim to think and problematize our contemporary digital infrastructures. Our researches are thought in the context in which we are inserted: Global South, Latin America and Brazil Our group at the same time aims to engage the academic world writing articles and academic journals and also the general public with artistic projects and efforts to democratize and demistify AI knowledge.
5min art-decoder+proposta
The motivation for this workshop is to think criticaly about the emmergence of AI services that walk side by side with us everyday. We are surrounded by these systems that are present in translation services (google), product and media recommendation, from youtube to instagram; object and face detection, heavily used by facebook. As one of our goals is to demistify the AI world we want to highlight that these systems are far from being perfect and their results may present some ideological bias. This bias may be associated to the dataset which can be unbalanced, and also can carry the world view of the person who made/trained the data.
(show example) Besides, these computer vision systems may present unexpected results, that people who designed these systems would call errors, however sometimes these errors show a different perspective of the image that can turn out to be very poetic. (show example)
Art Decoder is a system made by some reserchers from our group compile those results in a way that we can view the perspective of different computer vision services. Each of them produce their own set of results which can range from tagging an image to classifying if an image has adult or racy content for example
In this workshop we are going to work with Art Decoder. We prepared 4 different collections with works of art that are on display in MACBA. Those works of art have been read by some of those AIs, such as Google Cloud Vision, Amazon Recognition, ClarifAI, Microsoft Azure and Densecap.
Each of these produce different results and our goal is to surf in the platform to find the results that you interpret as problematic and also those errors/glitches that you think that can be interpreted as poetic results.
The reason we chose to use works of contemporary art is because these systems are not trained to function with all sorts of art and these works have a great variety of shapes, materials, colors and so on. This property can amplify these unexpected results.
(doubts, questions, commentaries)
3min dinamica
What we're doing now: we are going to select some results to appear in our zine, each page will be composed of an image analysed by densecap, two visualy similar images and the analysis of two AIs.
We have divided the collection into 4 different galleries and we would like to divide everyone into 4 groups each one browsing a different gallery.
We would like to ask you to surf through these computer vision analysis and select the ones that in your perspective fit as problematic or as poetic results. The selected results will be part of our collective zine
((**show example PINA zine**))
We have these pieces of paper with the Art Decoder url, you can access with your phones, and the instructions we've just talked about. At the end there's a space so that you can write down the the gallery number, the image number and the names of the two AIs you think should appear in the zine.
If you have any doubts please ask us, we can help you navigate through Art Decoder
We'll be analysing and selecting images for 25 minutes, then we would like to invite everyone to share what you have found out so that we can have a discussion about the results.
We're concerned with privacy, so it's not mandatory to write your name and e-mail, however if you want to receive a copy of the zine by e-mail, and if you want your name to appear in the zine as a collaborator, please write them.
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25min{
dinamica
}
10min{
roda de conversa sobre os resultados
}
}