Category: Day 05 – Friday, Oct 23
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Beware of Algorithms + Data Privacy
I can’t believe its the end of week one of the Fellowship already and what a week it’s been. I’m exhausted and inspired all at once. Hasan’s lecture today Beware of Algorithms resonated with me, as it was all about data is used to further capitalism (to sell you more products and services). This lecture […]
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Great Powers
Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD or APD) is a personality disorder characterized by a long-term pattern of disregard for, or violation of, the rights of others. A low moral sense or conscience is often apparent, as well as a history of crime, legal problems, or impulsive and aggressive behavior. With great powers come great responsibility. Using Tokking Heads from rosebud.ai I mixed the […]
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Multi species sit -ins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9gis7-Jads http://thischairdoesnotexist.com/ https://www.oocities.org/capitolhill/5720/ergonomics.en.htm
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Talking Head
This is truly incredible when your inspiration talks his words in his own tongue and in your voice. AI based model Talking head make it possible and I used the famous surreal figure Salvador Dali and his famous quote. The process of doing the work was really wonderful.
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Ideation with Fellow Artists!
Some interesting dialogues and information that helped me formulate my ideas so I am compiling them here for a future reference. Thank you fellow collaborators, Be Fantastic Team and off course Hassan @curiouswala for helping throughout the process.
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Malika-e-Tarannum
This is a New Media Art Project which I as a Visual-Tech artist am trying to interrogate Pop culture at the intersection of technology and history.
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Talking Pictures, deep fakes and lizard brains.
‘It seems to me that some of us value information over wonder, and noise over silence. And I feel that we need a lot more wonder and a lot more silence in our lives’. Fred Rogers. Changing our mental state through targeted online content and the way that algorithms take control away from the user […]
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It matters….
Playing with Tokking Heads. Lines taken from Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene/Donna Haraway, page 35.
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Originality is merely an illusion
or a deep fake… The introduction to facial recognition and the way its being used thus far through the homework we had was a great idea : Watch Social Dilemma We were introduced to tokkingheads.ai The applications of this technology is clearly massive. And the debate of whether it should be democratised is a long […]
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Irrational Thoughts
“Irrational Thoughts Should be Followed Absolutely and Logically.” An excerpt from Sol LeWitt’s ‘Sentences on Conceptual Art’.
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DarwinSaidThat! D5
This was Day 5 the session ‘Beware of algorithms’ looked into potentially tricky use cases of AI i.e. video manipulation. First thing that comes to our mind is the Obama’s Deepfake video that has emerged few years ago. The session followed interesting discussion about videos, faces, objects and more. The point made by Hasan opens […]
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Cage has nothing to say
“Having nothing to say” encouraged Cage as a composer but he was more a philosopher when he began working on chance controlled music. His piece 4:33 consisted, no notes. The performer, performs an “empty” piece. But is it really empty? The audience sits in silence watching nothing, which gets difficult, as it is not something […]
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(non)binary diaries
We are unwitting heirs of a long history of problematic binaries: from the go(o)d-(d)evil of premodernity to the oder-chaos of modernity. Problematic precisely because binaries feed into our double-optic apparatus and reinforce dual worlds. Reconciliation of retinal images does happen, but falls unfortunately in our visionary blind spot. Yet what is blind to two eyes […]
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Tokking Tagore
Exercise from Day 5. A sort of momentary resurrection, that allowed me to, (in a way) spend time with a historical figure about something that is still relevant, and alive. People are rendered immortal by their view surviving time. And this was a way of making that happen.
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glasnost and perestroika
I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. – Mikhail Gorbachev A man that changed the course of history and many, many lives, including mine. What would the world look without him? Generated using talkingheads.rosebud.ai
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Cogito, ergo sum
My curiosity in existence and reality has made me explore a variety of ideas, from Plato’s Allegory of the Cave to The Matrix trilogy. Through this exploration I came across Descarte’s work in a more concrete way. Most know of Descartes for his famous “Cogito, ergo sum” – I think therefore I am, but to […]
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Realist means…
For today’s exercise I worked with three lines from Bertolt Brecht’s text, “On Realism and Popularity”. Brecht’s political work aimed to redefine realism, shifting the definition away from its traditional associations with the use of copious “naturalistic” description. Instead, Brecht envisioned works that stripped reality of its masks, revealing the constructed-ness of images, stories and […]
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The amazing world of deep fakes
Today we got in contact with deep fakes. From a simple image of any in the person you can make them speak and move. You just record yourself and from there an AI, translates those movements to an image. The possibilities of this technology are amazing, although at the same time dangerous. With the progress […]
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