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 […]

A screenshot of the iPhone camera interface showing hanging masks resembling human faces in an art gallery, and yellow squares around each mask indicating that the phone camera has recognised a human face.

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 […]

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 […]

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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.

Machine Vision

My project on machine vision will be funded by the ERC!

Amazing news today: my ERC Consolidator project is going to be funded! This is huge news: it’s a €2 million grant that will allow me to build a research team to work for five years to understand how machine vision affects our […]

Machine Vision Teaching

Teaching drone vision

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar in digital media aesthetics on machine vision, and in today’s class we discussed drone art, using Dziga Vertov’s manifesto from 1923 (“I am kino-eye, I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, show you the […]

Machine Vision Teaching

How Do Machines See? My Graduate Seminar this Semester

I’m really excited about the course I’m teaching this semester. DIKULT303: Digital Media Aesthetics is a graduate seminar with a topic that changes from year to year, and this year it will be about machine vision, my current obsession, and a topic […]

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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.)

My project on machine vision will be funded by the ERC!

Teaching drone vision

How Do Machines See? My Graduate Seminar this Semester

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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.)

My project on machine vision will be funded by the ERC!

Teaching drone vision

How Do Machines See? My Graduate Seminar this Semester