Machine Vision

AI and algorithmic culture Machine Vision

DALL-E and human-AI assemblages

Have you tried playing with the mini version of DALL-E yet? It’s fun! What DALL-E does is generate wonderful images from written prompts, using a neural network trained on images scraped from the internet that have English language captions attached to them. […]

June 23, 2022June 23, 2022

Machine Vision

Cultural Representations of Machine Vision: An Experimental Mixed Methods Workshop

Call for submissions to a workshop, Bergen, Norway
Workshop dates: 15-17 August 2022
Proposals due: 15 June

The Machine Vision in Everyday Life project invites proposals for an interdisciplinary workshop using qualitative approaches and digital methods to analyse how machine vision is represented in art, science fiction, games, social media and other forms of cultural and aesthetic expression.

June 7, 2022June 7, 2022

Digital Humanities Machine Vision

What do different machine vision technologies do in fiction and art?

For the Machine Vision in Everyday Life project we’ve analysed how machine vision technologies are portrayed and used in 500 works of fiction and art, including 77 digital games, 190 digital artworks and 233 movies, novels and other narratives. You can browse […]

June 7, 2022June 7, 2022

Digital Humanities Machine Vision

Learning R for visualising humanities data

I think you should learn R! No really – I’ve spent the last 6-7 weeks learning R so I can visualise the data we’ve collected in the Database of Machine Vision in Art, Games and Narratives, and it’s not as hard as […]

February 17, 2022June 16, 2022

Digital Art Machine Vision

Exhibition setup!

OK, this is extremely exciting: the University Museum is making an exhibition about research in our Machine Vision in Everyday Life project! They’ve been working on it for months, and COVID has made everything look very iffy, but now it really looks […]

February 26, 2021June 16, 2022

Machine Vision

Hostile machine vision

One of our goals in MACHINE VISION is to analyse how machine vision is represented in art, stories, games and popular culture. A really common trope is showing machine vision as hostile and as dangerous to humans. Machine vision is used as […]

February 11, 2019May 29, 2020

Digital Art Machine Vision

Seeing brainwaves

Last week I was in London, where I visited Pierre Huyghe’s exhibition Uumwelt at the Serpentine Gallery. You walk in, and there are flies in the air, flies and a large screen showing images flickering past, fast. The images are generated by a neural […]

November 28, 2018November 28, 2018

Digital Art Machine Vision Visualise me

Generating portraits from DNA: Heather Dewey-Hagborg’s Becoming Chelsea

Did you know you can generate a portrait of a person’s face based on a sample of their DNA? The thing is, despite companies selling this service to the police to help them identify suspects, it’s not really that accurate. That lack […]

September 11, 2018

Machine Vision

The god trick and the idea of infinite, technological vision

When I was at the INDVIL workshop about data visualisation on Lesbos a couple of weeks ago, everybody kept citing Donna Haraway. “It’s the ‘god trick’ again,” they’d say, referring to Haraway’s 1988 paper on Situated Knowledges. In it, she uses vision […]

June 21, 2018September 11, 2018

Machine Vision Visualise me

Best Guess for this Image: Brassiere ( The sexist, commercialised gaze of image recognition algorithms.)

Did you know the iPhone will search your photos for brassieres and breasts, but not for shoulders, knees and toes? Or boxers and underpants either for that matter. “Brassiere” seems to be a codeword for cleavage and tits.

March 28, 2018September 11, 2018

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DALL-E and human-AI assemblages

Cultural Representations of Machine Vision: An Experimental Mixed Methods Workshop

What do different machine vision technologies do in fiction and art?

Learning R for visualising humanities data

Exhibition setup!

Hostile machine vision

Seeing brainwaves

Generating portraits from DNA: Heather Dewey-Hagborg’s Becoming Chelsea

The god trick and the idea of infinite, technological vision

Best Guess for this Image: Brassiere ( The sexist, commercialised gaze of image recognition algorithms.)