Category Archives: Technology

Amber-Leigh Jordan

Amber-Leigh Jordan

χάος (kháos)

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Ancient Greeks believed that before the creation of the universe, the world was in a state of nothingness, they referred to this concept as “χάος” (pronounced kháos).

Through the use of traditional and contemporary technologies, this collection aims to document the void of nothingness, which once a year, engulfs Greek Islands during their off-peak season.

The project was shot on the Greek Island of Kefalonia using an analogue Hasselblad Xpan camera and modern 360-Degree camera and offers an immersive perspective of Greece, which is unseen by frequenting tourists.

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Huaqi Zhang

Huaqi Zhang

Ai

AI is similar to dreams in that it allows humans to shuttle between the real and the unreal, making all sorts of absurd, unreal and strange imaginings come true.   To explore the changes in contemporary photographic art with new image capture techniques and equipment and the rapid development of technology

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Vishnu Manoj Ellath

Vishnu Manoj Ellath

Beyond The Code

The film “Beyond The Code” is a literal application of the overarching themes of artificial intelligence (AI) and its application within educational institutions, and its issues. The story explores a connection between two sentient AI beings who embark on a journey of self-discovery and understanding.

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Wenxin Guo

Wenxin Guo

Under Surveillance

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Surveillance, with its objective character, is used to record and reflect reality. However, this type of machine perspective is deceptive while extending our senses, creating a barrier between vision and cognition by simulating our environment, enveloping us in a vast system of simulacra. They are everywhere, all-seeing, like a God-like gaze, constantly shaping and consolidating the objective world we see. Under Surveillance reconstructs the living places we take for granted through the lens of simulated surveillance, revealing the authoritative role played by machines and exploring the infinite possibilities hidden behind the barrier.

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Xiao Liang

Xiao Liang

I WAS HERE

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Nowadays, many people spend a lot of their travel time on taking photos that are more in line with public aesthetics in order to post pictures that attract audiences on social media when they travel, and lose the meaning of photography in travel and the autonomy of shooting itself. In my opinion, this is influenced by cybernetics in communication science. Based on the black box method in cybernetics, I use a ccd cameras which cannot show images normally due to screen damage are taken as black box at every famous scenic spots and historic sites around the world to take pictures. Since this ccd camera still has the function of shooting except that the screen is damaged and the image cannot be seen, the picture in front of the lens can still be used as input. Therefore, I use this Ccd camera as a black box, and the places of interest in front of the lens are recorded into the camera as input. The act of imagining what the site should have looked like from audiences based on damaged images is output and feedback. At the same time, the camera was originally used as a tool for shooting, but it lost its meaning as a camera because it was damaged. It is as if people spend a lot of time travelling in order to take more aesthetically pleasing photos and thus gain more attention, while losing the meaning of photography in the journey itself.

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Jiayuan Yu

Jiayuan Yu

Ghost Work

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Artificial intelligence has given rise to a new wave of workers, but compared to the Industrial Revolution era, this working class is almost invisible, akin to the existence of ghosts. Ghost workers enhance machine learning algorithms by performing repetitive tasks online such as image annotation and content moderation. Many workers have been concealed within the promotion of company automation and full automation, even replacing their identities in human society with a series of numbers. They are a marginalized workforce that is not protected by law or society. This project compiles a set of characteristics of ghost workers through extensive research and provides them to AI for visualizing their avatars and virtual work environments. The characters in green suits resemble movie green screen costumes, allowing them to be easily identified and removed by software. The majority of ghost workers’ tasks involve annotating images gathered from the internet and using them as input to train AI models. In other words, they train models with their own work, creating images as if in a Möbius loop, gradually revealing the hidden parts.

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Yiran Liu

Yiran Liu

To be determined

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The topic of this project will be based on the Chinese creator goddess Nuwa as the main inspiration and element, and will revolve around a consideration of Transhumanism and posthuman-ism. In A HISTORY OF TRANSHUMANIST THOUGHT, Nick Bostrom summarises the attempts of human beings to usurp nature in many ways, from myths and legends, magic, religion and philosophy, as evidence of human beings’ ongoing attempts to empower themselves. This is why I wanted to combine traditional Chinese mythology with Transhumanism and posthuman-ism. The commonalities and contradictions between the myth of Nuwa’s creation and posthuman-ism allow this myth to be explored and used as an oriental element to represent posthuman-ism. Whereas early humans achieved their aspiration of omnipotence through the creation of gods, today humans are attempting to achieve it through technology. Personally, I think that the relationship between people and technology at this stage can be summed up in the words “creation” and “control”. In the process of creation, humans make technology as a tool more and more human, while in the process of control, they maintain the boundary between man and machine.

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Igor Chekachkov

Igor Chekachkov

Title of the work

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I will exhibit 2 projects: one consists of 3 big photographs in the frames – portraits of Ukrainian refugees. Another one is a mosaic of low res images

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Ziyao Lin

Ziyao Lin

Archive 2023 - Stories of My Life with AI

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This project, conceived and created over the first half of 2023, started with the concept of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) archive, which I then documented over a period of several months.

In the first part, the anonymous artist author presents her daily conversations, practices and life with ChatGPT as informative visual images. These fragmented recordings present the possibilities and potential problems of AI, a giant and complete intelligent system reflected through the lives and existence of distinct, insignificant individuals.

Another part of the work is a video essay, in which the AI speaks from their perspective about the archive, recounting its creation over the same period of time. It includes details of events from the AI’s point of view, as well as the AI’s flirtations with and comments on human behaviour.

This archive, which mixes memory and truth, blurring the boundaries between the private and the public, explores the hot topic of AI in 2023, how it is slowly entering the public eye and influencing action, throwing up the question of how humans will live with AI technology in the future.

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Szu-Yin Lee

szu-yin Lee

if (escape == true)

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In today’s digital era, where we often reduce ourselves to online profiles and communicate through emojis, we risk losing our connection with genuine emotions and real-life experiences. However, “if (escape == true)” is a puzzle game that defies this trend, suggesting the phenomenon of us losing the initiative. The objective for players is to break free from the digital realm and return to reality. At the beginning of the game, players are informed that the computer’s power button has been stolen, leaving them trapped in the digital world. Players must decipher digital emotions, contexts, and memes throughout the game to gather clues for solving puzzles and ultimately achieve their escape. It serves as a reminder to find a balance between the digital and tangible realms, encouraging us to reawaken our senses and cherish genuine connections in our lives.

 

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