Database

Machine Vision in Art, Games and Narratives

The Machine Vision Database collects information about games, art and narratives that use or represent machine vision technologies. In the second half of 2020 it will be fully developed, and the project will use network analysis and other methods to explore and analyse the data.

Screenshot of front page of database showing description and a list of works.

A screenshot of the front page of the Machine Vision Database in December 2019. Completion is planned for summer 2020.

Photo:

Jill Walker Rettberg

Main content

The database is currently under development, but you can have a peek at http://machine-vision.no.

The Machine Vision team will study theories and histories of visual technologies and current machine vision, analyse digital art, computer games and narrative fictions that use machine vision as theme or interface, and examine the experiences of users and developers of consumer-grade machine vision apps. Three main research questions are woven through all the approaches, addressing 1) new kinds of agency and subjectivity; 2) visual data as malleable; 3) values and biases.

The Machine Vision Database

The Machine Vision Database collects information about games, art and narratives that use or represent machine vision technologies. Our aim is to trace connections, similarities and differences in the ways machine vision is invoked culturally and aesthetically.

ACM Hypertext '19 Paper on Machine Vision Database

The Machine Vision team is presenting a short paper at the ACM Hypertext conference in September 2019, discussing the methodology and early findings from the machine vision database. The goal of this part of the project is to map cultural representations of machine vision in art, games and narratives.

Jill introducing Machine Vision to the group

Presented the Machine Vision database for the first time

Jill, Ragnhild and Linn Heidi introduced the database for the first time at Nordmedia in Malmø.

04.06.2020