surveillance – Artificial Intelligence

You are Safe Here

Gregor Tatschl — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 16:34:38 +0000

Roman Trilo (UA)

Making surveillance tangible.

Crowd-Sourced Intelligence Agency (CSIA)

Gregor Tatschl — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 07:23:15 +0000

Derek Curry (US), Jennifer Gradecki (US)

The Crowd-Sourced Intelligence Agency (CSIA) is a creative research project that partially replicates an open-source intelligence (OSINT) system, including an interface that allows users to experience how intelligence agents surveil social media posts and two machine-learning classifiers for predictive policing.

Like OSINT interfaces used by intelligence agencies and government contractors, the CSIA recontextualizes social media posts by removing them from their original context and reframing them as a potential threat to national security. The app was created using technical manuals, research reports, academic papers, leaked documents and Freedom of Information Act files.

By providing first-hand experience with social media monitoring systems, the CSIA exposes potential problems with current dataveillance processes in order to help users understand the effectiveness of OSINT processing and make informed decisions when navigating social media surveillance.

Credits

Support provided by Science Gallery Dublin

www.crowdsourcedintel.org

Breaking The Wall

Gregor Tatschl — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 07:32:25 +0000

The collaboration of the performance artists null.head (Didi Bruckmayr, Chris Bruckmayr) and the team of Breaking The Wall (Fares Kayali, Oliver Hoedl, Uli Kuehn, Thomas Wagensommerer) focuses on the technological and dramaturgical connection of body, sound, light and room.

Through this multi-sensory experience and provoked by an artistic counter-performance (Ruth Mateus-Berr, Julia Soto Delgado), the audience should be able to reflect on and question digital surveillance and technological authority as it may be part of technology-mediated audience participation. This kind of embodied and technological intervention creates an experimental situation where accepted customs, habits, and eeriness convene interchangingly.

Performers: Chris Bruckmayr, Didi Bruckmayr
Art direction: Fares Kayali, Oliver Hödl, Uli Kühn, Thomas Wagensommerer
Künstlerische Counter-Performance: Ruth Mateus-Berr, Julia Soto Delgado

Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien): Fares Kayali, Oliver Hödl, Peter Purgathofer, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Alexander Filipp, Christoph Bartmann
University of Applied Arts Vienna (Die Angewandte): Ruth Mateus-Berr, Thomas Wagensommerer, Uli Kühn, Julia Soto Delgado, Anna Lerchbaumer
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MDW): Johannes Kretz, Hande Sağlam
The Open University: Simon Holland

Breaking The Wall wird gefördert von FWF PEEK.

http://www.piglab.org/breakingthewall

Latent Space

Gregor Tatschl — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 16:27:05 +0000

Jake Elwes (UK)

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are fast becoming part of everyday life. Based on AI models currently used, among other things, in content moderation and surveillance, the artworks explore the “latent space” of the AI as it processes and imagines the world for itself, dreaming in the areas between and beyond what it has learnt from us.

Latent Space has been created by an artificial intelligence (AI)—an algorithm used to generate images based on how the human brain works to make sense of data. The AI was trained by inputting 14.2 million photographs. Once it has built neural connections to comprehend the data it can begin to dream in the areas between and beyond what it has learnt from us: a digital abstracted subconscious conceiving of new images and visualizing a “latent space”.

Credits

www.jakeelwes.com
Special thanks to Anh Nguyen et al. at Evolving-AI for their work on GANs