Bonjour,
(DeepL-enabled somewhat readable English translation under the French version below)
⛓️ La préparation d'un appel à contributions (pour une revue d'anthropologie) sur le thème de la panne, m'a fait tomber sur cet article du Guardian sur le thème des "franken-algorithms" qui est une synthèse intéressante; en particulier car elle décrit toutes sortes d'aléas et d'accrocs liés à la complexité, l'opacité et à des effets systémiques de l'usage de toutes sortes de morceaux de code. Ce article sur les ennuis des véhicules autnome Waymo en fournit une belle illustration.
🎨 Dans son projet Balenciaga AI (BalenciagAI ?), l'artiste Robbie Barrat a conçu un programme qui analyse les styles des collections antérieures de la Maison Balenciaga et produit une collection nouvelle basée sur ceux-ci. C'est évidemment fascinant, et très étrange du fait de multiples glitchs. Plus sérieux, cet article propose une généalogie de l'art dit "génératif", c'est-à-dire "art programmed using a computer that intentionally introduces randomness as part of its creation process". L'auteur, Jason Baily, en profite pour déconstruire deux mythes à ce propos ("Myth One: The artist has complete control and the code is always executed exactly as written. Therefore, generative art lacks the elements of chance, accident, discovery, and spontaneity that often makes art great, if not at least human and approachable.", "Myth Two: The artist has zero control and the autonomous machine is randomly generating the designs. The computer is making the art and the human deserves no credit, as it is not really art.")... pour rappeler que "generative artists skillfully control both the magnitude and the locations of randomness introduced into the artwork."
🏠 Sur le thème de l'automatisation dans la sphère domestique – et donc de la place des algorithmes à la maison – Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino vient de sortir un livre qui s'annonce très pertinent. Pas encore lu mais cela va venir.
👀 Onglets ouverts dans le navigateur : cet article sur la manière dont les technologies de surveillance nous font nous comporter comme des espions, ce numéro spécial de la revue Anthropology Quarterly sur le thème de la matérialité du téléphone mobile (merci Jérôme!), ce texte sur pourquoi il faut lire le code, cette recension d'un ouvrage sur le harcèlement en ligne , cette baladodiffusion concernant la nécessité de formes d'empathies avec des robots, et il semblerait qu'il y ait de la triche dans les compétitions de pigeons.
📝 Weeknote : hormis la rédaction d'articles et les relectures de toutes sortes de documents académiques ou non, c'est la rentrée et les discussion sur de nouveaux projets plus ou moins longs vont bon train. Les présentations du séminaire que j'ai co-organisé à la HEAD sur le thème de la réparation des objets numériques sont en ligne, c'est sur le blog du projet; avec des interventions passionnantes de Bruce Sterling, Jasmina Tešanović, Laurence Allard, Jérôme Denis, Anaïs Bloch, Marie Goyon, Benjamin Gaulon, Marie Roszkowska, Yvan Schulz, Clément Renaud et Hervé Munz.
🎙Mon comparse Laurent Haug m'a interviewé pour sa balladodiffusion "Be my guest" (spotify, itunes)
💬💬💬 Digital Parlance 💬💬💬
⛓️ Preparing a call for papers (for an anthropology journal) focused on breakdown and bugs, I ran across this piece in the Guardian about "franken-algorithms" which is an interesting overview of all kinds of hazards and snags related to the complexity, opacity and systemic effects of the use of all kinds of pieces of code. This article on the troubles of Waymo autonomous vehicles also illustrates such issues.
🎨 In his art project called Balenciaga AI (BalenciagAI?), Robbie Barrat has designed a program that analyses the styles of Balenciaga's previous collections and produces a new collection based on them. This is obviously fascinating, and very strange due to multiple glitches. More seriously, this other article describes a genealogy of "generative art", i.e. "art programmed using a computer that intentionally introduces randomness as part of its creation process". The author, Jason Baily, takes the opportunity to deconstruct two myths on this subject ("Myth One: The artist has complete control and the code is always executed exactly as written. Therefore, generative art lacks the elements of chance, accident, discovery, and spontaneity that often makes art great, if not at least human and approachable.", "Myth Two: The artist has zero control and the autonomous machine is randomly generating the designs. The computer is making the art and the human deserves no credit, as it is not really art.")... and reminds us that "generative artists skillfully control both the magnitude and the locations of randomness introduced into the artwork".
🏠 Concerning automation in the domestic sphere – and thus on the role of "household" algorithms – Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino just published a book that looks pertinent and promsing. Haven't read it yet though.
👀 Tabs currently opened in my web browser : this article on how surveillance technologies turn us into spies, this special edition of Anthropology Quarterly journal on the materiality of mobile phones (thanks Jérôme!), this text on why we should read code, this review of a book about online harassment, this podcast about the ncessity of empathy with robots, and it seems that some people cheat in pigeon races.
📝 Weeknotes: besides writing articles and proofreading all sorts of academic document, it's back-to-school days here with many discussions about new projects (with clients of the near future laboratory, or academics). Plus, the audio version of the talks presented in the sminar at the Geneva School of Art and Design about digital repair cultures are on-line. It's on the
project blog; with speakers such as Bruce Sterling, Jasmina Tešanović, Laurence Allard, Jérôme Denis, Anaïs Bloch, Marie Goyon, Benjamin Gaulon, Marie Roszkowska, Yvan Schulz, Clément Renaud et Hervé Munz.Bruce Sterling, Jasmina Tešanović, et Hervé Munz.
🎙My friend Laurent Haug interviewed me for his podcast called "Be my guest", it's only in French though (spotify, itunes)
📖 Random spread from an intriguing book:
(Eco-Visionaries: Art, Architecture, and New Media after the Anthropocene, Andraos, A., Demos, T.J., Gadanho, P. (eds), 2018, Hatje Cantz)
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– nicolas
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(DeepL-enabled somewhat readable English translation under the French version below)
💬💬💬 Expressions idiomatiques 💬💬💬
- Flop account: néologisme désignant les comptes Instagram gérés par plusieurs personnes, en général des adolescents nord-américains, sur lesquels la moquerie est de mise (Source: Urban Dictionary, The Atlantic)
- Patadata: version pataphysique des méta-données permettent potentiellement des formes de recherche d'informations par analogie (Source : Hendler et Hugill)
- Chi-fi (Chinese Hi-Fi): terme employé pour décrire les produits à bas-coûts conçus et produits en Chine, en compétition avec des objets de marque beaucoup plus onéreux manufacturés par les grandes marques mais eux-mêmes produits en Chine (Source: reddit Thanks Ádám)
- Shadowbanning : néologisme correspondant au fait de bloquer un utilisateur ou son contenu de telle sorte qu'il ne soit pas apparent pour celui-ci qu'il a été banni de cette plateforme (Source: Wikipedia).
- Snowbot: surnom des robots de téléprésence employés pour faire des conférences à distance, à la manière de Edward Snowden pour son intervention à la conférence "Technology, Entertainment, Design" en 2014 (Source: The Guardian)
🤖🤖🤖 Le coin des algorithmes 🤖🤖🤖
⛓️ La préparation d'un appel à contributions (pour une revue d'anthropologie) sur le thème de la panne, m'a fait tomber sur cet article du Guardian sur le thème des "franken-algorithms" qui est une synthèse intéressante; en particulier car elle décrit toutes sortes d'aléas et d'accrocs liés à la complexité, l'opacité et à des effets systémiques de l'usage de toutes sortes de morceaux de code. Ce article sur les ennuis des véhicules autnome Waymo en fournit une belle illustration.
🎨 Dans son projet Balenciaga AI (BalenciagAI ?), l'artiste Robbie Barrat a conçu un programme qui analyse les styles des collections antérieures de la Maison Balenciaga et produit une collection nouvelle basée sur ceux-ci. C'est évidemment fascinant, et très étrange du fait de multiples glitchs. Plus sérieux, cet article propose une généalogie de l'art dit "génératif", c'est-à-dire "art programmed using a computer that intentionally introduces randomness as part of its creation process". L'auteur, Jason Baily, en profite pour déconstruire deux mythes à ce propos ("Myth One: The artist has complete control and the code is always executed exactly as written. Therefore, generative art lacks the elements of chance, accident, discovery, and spontaneity that often makes art great, if not at least human and approachable.", "Myth Two: The artist has zero control and the autonomous machine is randomly generating the designs. The computer is making the art and the human deserves no credit, as it is not really art.")... pour rappeler que "generative artists skillfully control both the magnitude and the locations of randomness introduced into the artwork."
🏠 Sur le thème de l'automatisation dans la sphère domestique – et donc de la place des algorithmes à la maison – Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino vient de sortir un livre qui s'annonce très pertinent. Pas encore lu mais cela va venir.
🌱🌱🌱 Fragments 🌱🌱🌱
👀 Onglets ouverts dans le navigateur : cet article sur la manière dont les technologies de surveillance nous font nous comporter comme des espions, ce numéro spécial de la revue Anthropology Quarterly sur le thème de la matérialité du téléphone mobile (merci Jérôme!), ce texte sur pourquoi il faut lire le code, cette recension d'un ouvrage sur le harcèlement en ligne , cette baladodiffusion concernant la nécessité de formes d'empathies avec des robots, et il semblerait qu'il y ait de la triche dans les compétitions de pigeons.
📝 Weeknote : hormis la rédaction d'articles et les relectures de toutes sortes de documents académiques ou non, c'est la rentrée et les discussion sur de nouveaux projets plus ou moins longs vont bon train. Les présentations du séminaire que j'ai co-organisé à la HEAD sur le thème de la réparation des objets numériques sont en ligne, c'est sur le blog du projet; avec des interventions passionnantes de Bruce Sterling, Jasmina Tešanović, Laurence Allard, Jérôme Denis, Anaïs Bloch, Marie Goyon, Benjamin Gaulon, Marie Roszkowska, Yvan Schulz, Clément Renaud et Hervé Munz.
🎙Mon comparse Laurent Haug m'a interviewé pour sa balladodiffusion "Be my guest" (spotify, itunes)
💬💬💬 Digital Parlance 💬💬💬
- Flop account: Instagram "pages that are collectively managed by several teens, many of them devoted to discussions of hot-button topics: gun control, abortion, immigration, President Donald Trump, LGBTQ issues, YouTubers, breaking news, viral memes." (Source: The Atlantic), "An account usually found on instagram typically made fandom based to make fun of and demean what they call "flops" and things they find cringey" (Urban Dictionary).
- Patadata: a pataphysical version of meta-data, which allows potentiel new forms of information foraging, through facetious analogy-based reasoning (Source : Hendler et Hugill)
- Chi-fi (Chinese Hi-Fi): low priced products designed and manufactured in China that compete with much higher priced items designed by big name brands, themselves usually manufactured in China as well. (Source: reddit Thanks Ádám).
- Shadowbanning : "the act of blocking a user or their content from an online community such that it will not be readily apparent to the user that they have been banned." (Source: Wikipedia)
- Snowbot: nickname used for telepresence robots used for video-conferencing, such as the one on which Edward Snowden appeared in his talk at the "Technology, Entertainment, Design" conference en 2014 (Source: The Guardian)
🤖🤖🤖 Algo corner🤖🤖🤖
⛓️ Preparing a call for papers (for an anthropology journal) focused on breakdown and bugs, I ran across this piece in the Guardian about "franken-algorithms" which is an interesting overview of all kinds of hazards and snags related to the complexity, opacity and systemic effects of the use of all kinds of pieces of code. This article on the troubles of Waymo autonomous vehicles also illustrates such issues.
🎨 In his art project called Balenciaga AI (BalenciagAI?), Robbie Barrat has designed a program that analyses the styles of Balenciaga's previous collections and produces a new collection based on them. This is obviously fascinating, and very strange due to multiple glitches. More seriously, this other article describes a genealogy of "generative art", i.e. "art programmed using a computer that intentionally introduces randomness as part of its creation process". The author, Jason Baily, takes the opportunity to deconstruct two myths on this subject ("Myth One: The artist has complete control and the code is always executed exactly as written. Therefore, generative art lacks the elements of chance, accident, discovery, and spontaneity that often makes art great, if not at least human and approachable.", "Myth Two: The artist has zero control and the autonomous machine is randomly generating the designs. The computer is making the art and the human deserves no credit, as it is not really art.")... and reminds us that "generative artists skillfully control both the magnitude and the locations of randomness introduced into the artwork".
🏠 Concerning automation in the domestic sphere – and thus on the role of "household" algorithms – Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino just published a book that looks pertinent and promsing. Haven't read it yet though.
🌱🌱🌱 Fragments 🌱🌱🌱 <
👀 Tabs currently opened in my web browser : this article on how surveillance technologies turn us into spies, this special edition of Anthropology Quarterly journal on the materiality of mobile phones (thanks Jérôme!), this text on why we should read code, this review of a book about online harassment, this podcast about the ncessity of empathy with robots, and it seems that some people cheat in pigeon races.
📝 Weeknotes: besides writing articles and proofreading all sorts of academic document, it's back-to-school days here with many discussions about new projects (with clients of the near future laboratory, or academics). Plus, the audio version of the talks presented in the sminar at the Geneva School of Art and Design about digital repair cultures are on-line. It's on the
project blog; with speakers such as Bruce Sterling, Jasmina Tešanović, Laurence Allard, Jérôme Denis, Anaïs Bloch, Marie Goyon, Benjamin Gaulon, Marie Roszkowska, Yvan Schulz, Clément Renaud et Hervé Munz.Bruce Sterling, Jasmina Tešanović, et Hervé Munz.
🎙My friend Laurent Haug interviewed me for his podcast called "Be my guest", it's only in French though (spotify, itunes)
📖 Random spread from an intriguing book:
(Eco-Visionaries: Art, Architecture, and New Media after the Anthropocene, Andraos, A., Demos, T.J., Gadanho, P. (eds), 2018, Hatje Cantz)
++
– nicolas
EOF