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Panel: Beautiful seams: Unraveling the Intelligence of everything (#AMRO2020)

Posted on: May 18, 2020 /
Categories: Conference, News, Research

Narratives of “smartness” are extending to all areas of life: cities, homes and things. These narratives are dominated by “the smartness mandate” promising that innovation and technology will provide solutions to various crises of our planet. Any economic, environmental or security threat, like the ongoing pandemic, becomes a possibility for smart growth and optimization for

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Artwork: Suspicious Behavior – a data annotation tutorial

Posted on: May 15, 2020 /
Categories: News, Recent works, Research

-> -> -> -> Access Suspicious Behavior data annotation tutorial <- <- <- <-   Machine vision technologies, such as object recognition, facial recognition and emotion detection, are increasingly used to turn images into information, filter it and make predictions and inferences. In the past years these technologies have made rapid advances in accuracy. The

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Artwork: Future past still in the making

Posted on: November 25, 2019 /
Categories: News, Recent works

  The four channel video installation is based on recorded material from smart city visits in South Korea, marketing material published by corporations and smart city initiatives, and other gray literature, such as industry presentations or reports. By decoding the visual and rhetorical language of “smartness”, the installation investigates ways to unveil the underlying power

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Workshop: Greenwashing Smart Futures

Posted on: November 21, 2019 /
Categories: News, Workshops

Andreas Zingerle, Davide Bevilacqua, Linda Kronman We are interested to continuously explore methods which brings forth new forms of artistic research, especially in context of digitalization, and everyday use of technology in urban environment. Following previous academic and artistic research projects ‘Behind the smart world’ and ‘The Internet of other people’s things’, we want to

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Publication: Critical Maker Reader: Behind the Smart World – Artistic Remixing of a Global Data Breach

Posted on: July 12, 2019 /
Categories: News, Publications

THE CRITICAL MAKERS READER: COLLABORATIVE LEARNING WITH TECHNOLOGY 
 About the book: A decade ago many gushed at the possibilities of 3D printers and other DIY tech. Today makers are increasingly shaking off their initial blind enthusiasm to numerically control everything, rediscovering an interest in sociocultural histories and futures and waking up to the environmental

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