Oh dear. I was hoping for something more, well, horrific, really. This just isn’t very frightening, is it?
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I'm Jill Walker Rettberg, professor of digital culture at the University of Bergen. Blogging here since October 2000.
Oh dear. I was hoping for something more, well, horrific, really. This just isn’t very frightening, is it?
Take the Affliction Test Today!
A Rum and Monkey disease.
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. […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
I’m a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago this year, affiliated with the Center for Applied AI at Booth School of Business. I’m excited about the opportunity to learn from a different disciplinary approach to AI and machine vision. I discovered […]
I’m giving a talk at an actual f2f academic conference today, Critical Borders, Radical Re(visions) of AI, in Cambridge. I was particularly excited to see this conference because it’s organised by the people who edited AI Narratives A History of Imaginative Thinking […]
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Careful! This is the kind of thing that Clay Shirky used as an example of his dismissive attitude towards LiveJournal blogs. (The actual quote “such as those “Which My Dinner With Andre? character are you?” quizzes that seem to rip through LiveJournal in a matter of hours.” Can be found at http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2003/04/28/dhtml_makes_the_man.php
The closest I’ve come, to this lately has been to ask about Gozilla monsters (http://www.livejournal.com/users/fivecats/58077.html) and to point out the great Sesame Street Terror Alert Chart (http://www.livejournal.com/users/fivecats/51977.html).
But, then again, the fates convened and thwarted my plans for a career in academics, and, as such, my blog is decidedly not an academic one and, therefore, doubtless, unread by Mr. Shirky. 🙂
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Oh, and by the way, I’m RABIES.
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Jill
Oh, I know, but hey, I already GOT my PhD, I’m entitled to some silliness now 🙂
Nah, usually I ignore these tests, but I seem to be in a testy mood this week. You should see my collection at Tickle. It’s quite impressive.
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miscellany is the largest category
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