A master class, a workshop and a PhD defence for the Machine Vision project
The second week of January will be a busy one for the Machine Vision project. This page gathers information about the week's events.
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The full schedule for the Machine Vision Week is as follows:
Wednesday, January 11th
14:15-16:00: Masterclass for Linda Kronman’s PhD thesis, with Nicolas Malevé as the external expert.
Working title of PhD thesis: "Performing Bias – Conceptions of Machine Vision Bias in Digital Art"
Abstract: This PhD thesis investigates how the relationship between bias and machine vision is conceptualised in digital art. It questions the role of bias in AI-powered perception through two projects that I have been involved in: The "Database of Machine Vision in Art, Games and Narratives" created as part of the Machine Vision in Everyday Life project, and "Suspicious Behavior", an artwork I co-created as part of the artist duo KairUs. By analysing artworks, creating network visualisations and conducting artistic research I demonstrate that artworks embrace, expose, reverse-engineer, embody and hack machine vision bias. What emerges through art is an algorithmic literacy which brings the human back into AI. My conclusion is that understanding how machine perception as a technology designed by humans is always biased and yet malleable opens up the possibility to perform bias, or in other words, to shape and change the worldviews ingrained in contemporary machine vision systems.
19:00: Dinner for speakers and project team
Thursday, January 12th
10:00-12:00: AI, art and machine vision: Nicolas Malevé, Audrey Samson and Jill Walker Rettberg (University Library)
Nicolas Malevé: The exhibitionary complex of machine vision
Audrey Samson: The Automated Gaze
Jill Walker Rettberg: About the Machine Vision project.
12:15: Lunch for speakers and project team (Café Christie)
13:00-16:00: Internal meetings for the Machine Vision project.
16:30-17:30: Ragnhild Solberg’s trial lecture for her PhD.
Topic: "From microscope to satellite: the implications of technological development of machine vision and its significance in digital games from a posthumanist perspective"
(Sydneshaugen skole, Auditorium B)
Friday, January 13th
9:30-13:00: Ragnhild Solberg’s PhD defense. Dissertation: Playing posthumanism: A study of machine vision and tensions of human-machine relations in digital games (Sydneshaugen skole, Auditorium B)
18:00: Reception for workshop attendees