Algorithmic anxieties: Trevor Paglen in conversation with Anthony Downey

Paglen, Trevor; Downey, Anthony

doi:10.1057/s42984-020-00001-2

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“…Some people may be thought evil by others but evil people can also be thought friendly through the smile they pretend. This confirmed the sentence that Paglen in his article, he claimed that people can create so-called inferior people by using those colonial pseudosciences such as phrenology and physiognomy [8]. From the book "Body And Archive", police will establish an archive for criminals including photos from all aspects people can observe their height, front face and side face [9].…”

Section: Cell Phones and Human-beings' Behaviorsmentioning

confidence: 55%

A Systematic Review of Way That Human Body Can Be an Interface of Information Exchange

Huang¹

2022

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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Mediums of information transfer around the world are diverse. However, as the simplest interface, human bodies are usually ignored. The human body can easily deliver various information to outside. Here, the purpose of this paper is to investigate how the significant factors of technology and visual culture enable the human body to express relevant information about them. This article will do literature review, analyze some experiments and a lot of media records like photos experiment data, and movies. Advanced technologies are also introduced and used in this paper. This article reveals that human bodies can be an interface of information exchange. First, humans' nervous system can be analyzed by the latest equipment which can detect brain activities. These records offer content about people's thoughts and ideas, which means the nervous system of a human reflects the information. In the next part, this paper will concentrate on cell phones. A lot of pictures and photos on the Internet in cell phones are able to show different information like jobs and identity. Finally, diverse types of scenarios, lens, and environments in VR glasses and science fiction involved in horrible scenes can easily change people's behaviors and responses. Thus, the result consists of the evidence that is used. The paper is helpful to people who want to research different functions and connections between the human body and visual culture.

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Section: Cell Phones and Human-beings' Behaviorsmentioning

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A Systematic Review of Way That Human Body Can Be an Interface of Information Exchange

Huang¹

2022

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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“…The performance of each piece of music was aligned with a machine-learning algorithm that was given a specific task: to project an image of how the cameras perceived the performer on the screen behind the ensemble. Paglen's art studio team did not write the algorithms for this multimedia performance but built a software environment into which they fed several existing machine vision algorithms to test their validity (Paglen 2022). The result of the computer vision program was applied during the live performance and projected onto the stage where the performers sat.…”

Section: Trevor Paglen's Sight Machinementioning

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“…The live performance Sight Machine in 2017 has been part of Paglen's long-term research project on machine vision. It started to take form in 2007/08, at a time when the tools of AI were largely inaccessible; only over time, with storage getting easier to acquire and computers getting faster, was he able to make art that responds to AI technologies (Paglen 2022). Sight Machine grew out of Paglen's residency at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University.…”

Section: Trevor Paglen's Sight Machinementioning

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Training Humans Not Machines

Moravec

2024

TDR: Drama Rev

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In the 21st century, the performance culture of critique has transformed with the increasing implementation of AI technologies upon which the operative functions of data capitalism are built. Operating within the performance-based culture industry, the works of Trevor Paglen, Gerald Nestler/Sylvia Eckermann, and Vladan Joler respond critically to data capitalism’s modes of data extraction and how the societal performances of capitalism condition people’s physical and digital performances.

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Postdigital war beneath the sea? The Stack’s underwater cable insecurity

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Karatzogianni

2020

Digi War

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This article addresses the problem of undersea cable security, arguing that for almost a century undersea cables have been the playground of major states that have enjoyed the practice of cable interference as part of international conflict. Over the last two decades, it has been a major source of intelligence for organisations like NSA and GCHQ, and so there has been a reluctance to advance international legalisation in this area. Nonetheless, the effect of this has been a failure to protect the digital global commons, and as a consequence, the level of risk to critical infrastructure is growing. The use of cables for intelligence gathering has resulted in a legal regime that is patchy and piecemeal, reflecting a general conspiracy of silence amongst major states about intelligence and its interplay with international law, very much raising questions about the interplay of hardware and software sovereignty with the declining sovereignty of states in modern geopolitics defined by the additional problem of the emergency of the looming ecological disaster. Ultimately, we argue that the end of the digital, through its dependency and risk to the Earth layer, poses critical questions regarding emergent postdigital battlefields, right at the heart of the deep materiality of computation.

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Algorithmic anxieties: Trevor Paglen in conversation with Anthony Downey

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A Systematic Review of Way That Human Body Can Be an Interface of Information Exchange

A Systematic Review of Way That Human Body Can Be an Interface of Information Exchange

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