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I'm Jill Walker Rettberg, professor of digital culture at the University of Bergen. Blogging here since October 2000.

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    Lesson plan: DIKULT103 29.01.2019 – Video Game Aesthetics and Orientalism in Games

    Readings: Understanding Video Games Chapter 5, Woke Gaming Chapter 6 (Kristin Bezio: The Perpetual Crusade: Rise of the Tomb Raider, Religious Extremism, and the Problem of Empire. (p 119-138)) Learning goals: After doing the reading, taking the quiz and attending the class, students can Explain how video […]

    February 18, 2019February 19, 2019
    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
    Figure from a scientific paper.
    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
    Algorithmic bias

    Updates on algorithms and society talks

    I’ve given a few more versions of the “algorithms and society” talks from this spring. You can still see the videos of those talks, but here are a few links to new material I’ve woven into them: Social credit in China – […]

    September 19, 2018October 17, 2018
    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.
    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
    Academia

    My ERC interview: the full story

    It seems more and more research funding is awarded in a two-step process, where applicants who make it to the second round are interviewed by the panel before the final decisions are made. I had never done this kind of interview before […]

    August 22, 2018September 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
    Algorithmic bias

    Skal samfunnet styres av algoritmer? To foredrag og syv bøker

    [English summary: info about two recent talks I gave about algorithmic bias in society] Algoritmer, stordata og maskinlæring får mer og mer å si for samfunnet vårt, og brukes snart i alle samfunnsområder: i skolen, rettsstaten, politiet, helsevesenet og mer. Vi trenger […]

    April 23, 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
    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 […]

    November 28, 2017November 28, 2017

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    Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves

    By Jill Walker Rettberg

    Open Access
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    Blogging (2nd ed.)

    By Jill Walker Rettberg

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    Digital Culture, Play, and Identity: A World of Warcraft® Reader

    By Hilde Corneliussen

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