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CUCR: My Spiritual And Intellectual Home
Get PDFThis short article is about my relationship to the Centre for Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths, University of London
Reflections on Explainable AI for the Arts (XAIxArts)
Get PDFCurrent Explainable AI (XAI) research mostly examines functional or technical explanations of what an AI is doing, for example, providing an explanation of how an image classifier works to help debug it when misclassifications are made. In these settings, there is typically a right answer, or correct set of outputs, that we are trying to train the AI to arrive at. In the arts there are no right or wrong answers, no correct set of outputs. In the arts we are often interested in outcomes that are surprising or unusual, or even disturbing and disruptive. Furthermore, in creative practice the focus is usually on the output itself rather than detailed explanations of how it was produced. What then does it mean to explain AI models in an artistic context? How are such explanations different from more functional explanations and context? And what insights might exploring these questions provide for XAI research more broadly? To begin exploring these questions, I brought together an international team of researchers to host the first international workshop on explainable AI for the arts (XAIxArts) at the 2023 ACM Creativity & Cognition conference. In this paper, I'll reflect on the key themes that emerged in the workshop, what we learned about XAI and the arts, and how that might relate to XAI more broadly
Memes como estratégia discursiva política noTwitter durante a pandemia da covid-19
Get PDFO uso das mídias sociais para produção e disseminação de conteúdo foi elemento central na campanha do presidente Jair Bolsonaro, quando eleito em 2018. (SOARES et al., 2019) Desde então, Bolsonaro, seus aliados políticos e grupos de militância têm utilizado as mídias sociais para a comunicação direta com a audiência, inclusive através de memes. (CHAGAS; MODESTO; MAGALHÃES, 2019; MENDONÇA; CAETANO, 2021; SANTOS, 2020) O uso de memes em discursos políticos também já foi observado em campanhas eleitorais e, particularmente, nos processos de comunicação com seus apoiadores. (VOLCAN, 2014) Na realidade, o estudo dos memes políticos como estratégia de comunicação tem sido profícuo tanto no Brasil (CHAGAS et al., 2017) quanto fora dele. (ROSS; RIVERS, 2017) Além disso, as mídias sociais também estão mobilizadas para a produção de discurso político sobre a pandemia de covid-19, tanto por membros e apoiadores do governo quanto por opositores. (ARAÚJO; OLIVEIRA, 2020; RECUERO; SOARES, 2021 SOARES et al., 2020
Cut, Construction and Silhouette: The practice of bespoke tailoring and shifting forms of identity in the early nineteenth century
No full textIn parallel with the development of early nineteenth century men’s social roles, the sartorial dandy style, with its elegance and neatness reflected in theories about ‘hygienic and dress’, opened new opportunities for men to dress and to ‘dictate taste’ for fashion. The wearing of plain, woollen, bespoke tailored clothing led to the need for improved construction and fit, which, in turn, stimulated the development of the already dominant London tailoring profession. The same period also witnessed the expansion of women’s social roles, not least when it came to horse riding and walking. In response, tailors took their techniques for constructing male fitted clothing to produce women’s walking habits alongside well-established garments for riding thus bringing together style and practicality. The style was deliberately masculine in its cut, construction, and silhouette. These developments contributed to the emergence of new social roles and meanings. Dandyism, alongside the craft of bespoke tailoring, therefore helped to break down established gender boundaries, offering new forms of identity for women and a route towards empowerment within a society where the male and female sex were understood to operate in separate spheres
Cyborg Children: A Systematic Literature Review on the Experience of Children Using Extended Reality
Get PDFThis literature review presents a comprehensive and systematic account of research on the experiences of children with extended reality (XR), including VR, AR, and other types of immersive technologies that enhance and augment children’s activities. The search on Scopus and Web of Science produced 531 outputs. Content analysis with inter-rater reliability (Krippendorff’s α) and Leximancer, a software for text mining, were used for analyzing the material. Four research strands were identified: (1) interventions, treatments, and medical procedures in clinical contexts; (2) teaching and learning enhanced by XR; (3) children’s adoption and user experiences; (4) design and prototyping of XR hardware and software for children. The results showed the following findings: (a) studies on children’s clinical interventions and treatments using HMD-supported immersive virtual reality comprise the most substantial strand of studies; (b) research in this area, and in teaching and learning studies, has grown dramatically since 2017, while the other areas have been stagnant over the years; (c) AR research is still limited and is mainly applied in educational contexts for design and prototyping; (d) few studies have considered children’s perspectives on XR safety issues; (e) research on the use of XR for enhancing social and emotional skills development is underrepresented. Future research should focus on the potential of XR technologies for interventions to enhance children’s psychosocial wellbeing and health more broadly. The further implications and study limitations for the fast-developing nature of this transdisciplinary research field are also discussed
Favouritism, patronage, and the ‘family system’ in England c. 1700-1850
Get PDFThis article examines the interrelationships between familial, social, political and professional ideas about favouritism in England. It shows that there was a cross-fertilisation of discourses over the century-and-a-half between c.1700 and 1850, when favouritism was increasingly problematised in the domestic, social and professional spheres. Although several issues were identified as emanating from its practice, it was the very role of the family itself that increasingly made favouritism so deeply objectionable to those who articulated a vision of social and professional mobility and advancement based on merit rather than interpersonal relationships and family structures. Indeed, the link between the body politic and family was reformulated from the age of reform onwards as concerns about favouritism were directed inward to the privatised family and then to the pathologised individual. Overall, therefore, this article demonstrates that the institution of the family was both conceptually and practically fundamental to the meta-structure of social, professional and political life, long beyond the early modern period
Agents of Deterioration
Get PDFA narrative description of the project Prisoners of Love: Affect, Containment and Alternative Futures [2022-24] providing an overview of the theoretical and conceptual foundations of the project. For example, imprisonment, containment and the carceral logic of museums is introduced by drawing on Bresson’s A Man Escaped. These concepts are used to illustrate the severing of people and objects, and to explore the relationship between digital technologies, representation, and power dynamics. The report then moves into a series of accounts and images of the different components of the project, including visits, workshops and exhibitions, and concludes with a transcript of a conversation between Kathryn Yusoff and Esi Eshun
From Individual Discomfort to Collective Solidarity: Choreographic Exploration of Extractivist Technology
Get PDFWe invite human-computer interaction and technology practitioners to join us in the collaborative exploration of discomfort associated with technology in the age of surveillance capitalism. With the help of body-based exercises inspired by choreography we will articulate the discomforts of living and designing with extractivist technology. Our studio is aimed at technology practitioners of a broad range of expertise who have experienced discomfort in relation to data- driven extractivist systems.
In the first part of the studio, participants will share their experiences of resisting such systems as users and technology creators. In the second part, participants will engage in an ideation session to propose forms of countering existing technologies.
Embodied methods and choreographic approaches will be used for making digital discomfort tangible and for guiding the exploration of the topics at stake. As an outcome, participants will collectively design a toolbox to conceptualise discomfort in a tangible, embodied way, and form a network to continue discuss these matters post-studio in an online community discussion group
When the world catches up with science-fiction: Doctor Doom and the missing view screens
No full textSome science fiction technologies have yet to become reality - we don't yet have jet packs or meals in pill form, for example - but when they eventually do slip into everyday life their previous existence as futuristic wonders can be forgotten.
One example of this is Doctor Doom and his constant use of viewing screens during the Marvel Age of comics from 1961 to 1987. An empirical analysis of texts published during this period clearly demonstrated that this technology was one of Doom's key character signifiers, but a survey of over two hundred current fans and academics undertaken in 2020 showed that almost nobody remembered it.
This paper will explain how these two different methods of assessing a character came to such different results, and suggest that the survey respondents missed out viewing screens as a notable futuristic technology because they had become part of their working life in the twenty-first century. It will then argue that this demonstrates the usefulness of taking an empirical approach to superhero research, rather than relying on unreliable memory and opinion, and provide other examples of this process in action
