Today’s topic is participation in art. The texts behind this article make a particularly convincing case that we’re in dire need of dismantling of surface-level tropes around artistic participation, if we’re to save art as a socialised and social action. Claire Bishop’s “Artificial Hells” is a particularly on-point critique of...
10 Mar, 2018 — 4 minute read # ResearchOn Sensing Before you read on, refresh your Whitehead and process philosophy. If we are to reimagine how environmental sensing is being conducted — under which premises, or assumptions, is the methodology constructed, how are sensors constructed, positioned, calibrated, and operated, etc, we should be mindful of not losing track...
28 Feb, 2018 — 4 minute read # ResearchComputer vision — the process by which a machine learns to assign humanly recognisable meaning to concepts that are utterly alien to it, such as arrays of RGB values — is unsurprisingly the holy grail of machine learning in 2018. There is an unforgiving optimism in the belief that computer...
07 Feb, 2018 — 4 minute read # ResearchHumanity’s affinity with the human-like follows a particular growth curve: while affinity grows steadily as the observed entity becomes more human-like, there is a pronounced dip and a rejection of affinity when that entity comes close enough to be mistaken for human only some of the time, intermixed with distinct...
05 Jan, 2018 — 3 minute read # ResearchI am fascinated by the non-human turn’s perspective of relinquishing human creative primacy, and removing humanity from the fictitious focus of attention. In my reading, the non-human turn is a stream of thought that accepts reality as a complex, messy, system of interrelated actors and affects, operating in overlapping mixed...
20 Dec, 2017 — 4 minute read # Research“Executing Practices,” the sixth chapter in the Data Browser Series, takes a refreshing approach when analysing how expression is mediated through machine execution. The group of artists, thinkers and researchers take the first step in recognising that an analysis of computation seen solely through the agnosticism of execution would fail...
10 Dec, 2017 — 3 minute read # ResearchConcept A wearable sleeve that interprets data received through bluetooth and visualises them on a series of LEDs. I am fascinated by the potential of technology to enhance our expression and add to communication between individuals. The concept of wearing one’s heart on their sleeve made me think what it...
16 Nov, 2017 — 2 minute read # Physical ComputingSuchman touches upon a crucial aspect of what it means for an AI to be human: how is being human figured, according to which perspective, and how does our transposition of this figuration onto machines influence our understanding of the human in artificial intelligence? The opening paragraph touches upon mimicry...
10 Nov, 2017 — 5 minute read # ResearchLet’s start by reflecting on McLuhan’s quote that Clough chose as the introductory note to this document: …the emergence of a new media is too violent and superstimulated a social experience for the central nervous system simply to endure.” Marshal McLuhan (1994, 43). In a nutshell, McLuhan exposes the fact...
27 Oct, 2017 — 4 minute read # ResearchLatest update: November 2017 soldering and serialising and buffering and capacitating Project 14 - Sending serial input to a Processing sketch How to create input controllers that other apps can read. The pot meter sends serial data to the comp, Processing receives the data in its buffer, and assigns color...
21 Oct, 2017 — 5 minute read # Physical ComputingGoffey’s paper focuses on teasing out the connection between algorithmic abstraction and the discursive power that the same abstraction represents, if seen as statement rather than just syntax. By opposing a reductionist and functional view of algorithms as descriptive entities, Goffey advocates for embracing abstraction by making the point that,...
19 Oct, 2017 — 3 minute read # ResearchHello world. This is where I’ll be documenting my research. This is probably also where I’ll be documenting the rest of my academic endeavours. If in the meantime you want to read some of my work from before, check out my 2017 thesis on algorithms as gatekeepers, my post on...
12 Oct, 2017 — 1 minute read # Research