"To propose the theme and lead an artistic practice-based session, that could include: film screening, performance, screening and discussion of your own work and how it relates to the concepts of algorithmic cultures and security; other formats of engagement and discussion. The idea is that this session would be more dedicated to Femke's and the Constant collective's own work and experience." "and/or discussions of artworks (films, performances, and other) that embody or actively negotiate the issues at stake. The gatherings will also address the interconnection between theory and artistic-curatorial practice." algocult ALGORITHMICITY http://www.publicseminar.org/2015/05/animal/#.VWhpzLzhntQ http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glosses Glossing over, glosses, glossary Bag of words Training Golden Standard Mesh Agatha Christie smoking Asger Jorns cigar ---- Scandinavian Institute for Computational Vandalism Objscr Notations Algolit MakeHuman Cqrrelaties An performance of algorithms The Annotator Big Data and discrimination Algorithmic layout (from TeX to thegrid.org) ---- From Constant cyberfeminism 1.0 to the Post-Human condition: Digital companion species (DH/PL). Constant as a network of associated artists, developers, thinkers, activists. What links these projects/practices: Feminism, Free Software, tools, interest in materiality. Ways to be 'in conversation': stay close, not distant. "Assume to be implicated". (crossing scales. generosity) As our intermediaries, our tools will be interlocutors. (NM) Forensic probes (Scandinavian Institute for Computational Vandalism/Kurienniemi) Making tangible http://sicv.activearchives.org/ <-- http://kurenniemi.activearchives.org/logbook/ http://activearchives.org/wiki/Guttorm_Guttormsgaard http://www.networkedsocial.constantvzw.org/?p=352 (Quick Sort) Generative play (Botopera, PD, in some sense SICV, Algolit) Algorithm as co-creator http://botopera.activearchives.org/ <-- http://publicdomainday.constantvzw.org/ http://sicv.activearchives.org/ http://www.constantvzw.org/site/-Algolit,184-.html Fonzie (scanner) A Constant Software Observatory (Cqrrelaties: Big Data and Discrimination, The Annotator, MakeHuman bugreport, interview Anne Laure) http://www.cqrrelations.constantvzw.org http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/the_annotator http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/flightcafe http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/bugreport <-- ---- Look at Pattern: detect behaviour Algorithmic Apophenia Pasquinelli, Anomaly: The two functions of pattern recognition and anomaly detection are applied blindly across different fields. This is one of the awkward aspects of algorithmic governance. Pasquinelli, Anomaly: We have to produce new revolutionary institutions out of data and algorithms. If the abnormal returns into politics as a mathematical object, it will have to find its strategy of resistance and organisation, in the upcoming century, in a mathematical way. Pasquinelli: A former CIA director has already expressed this epistemic shift of military affairs and politics in a cynical yet concise way: “We kill people based on metadata”. 6 Pasquinelli: Any (industrial or abstract) machine is nevertheless a machine of cognition, a product of observation and intuition to solve mundane problems, and it comes to shape the world after its original epistemic imprint. Any machine is a product of abstraction, of a general intellect that mirrors the diagram of its social relations. Pasquinelli, Anomolies: anomalies are results that do not conform to a norm. The unexpected anomaly can be detected only against a pattern regularity. And conversely a pattern emerges only through the median equalisation of diverging tendencies. Anomaly detection and pattern recognition are the two epistemic tools of algorithmic governance. Connection between climate change forecast and criminal behaviour prediction Harcourt: Against prediction 'algorithmic governance' --- Eleven orderings NM: Different orderings reveal that we have no direct access to the archive and its documents. We only access it through a dialog with interlocutors. Different orderings make the interlocutors speak to us. Interlocutors can be human or software agents like computer programs installed on a server or embedded in a camera. The work of creating, maintaining, and transporting the archive, including inevitable glitches, misunderstandings, and misplacements, they are inescapably a part of the reality and identity of the archive. Each ordering suffers from its own deficiencies, has its own glitches, holes, and blindspots. ---- Archiving the data-body http://activearchives.org/wiki/Archiving_the_Data-body:_human_and_nonhuman_agency_in_the_documents_of_Kurenniemi Their working approach is not to follow standardized archiving procedures of ordering and classifying, but to offer a series of speculations on the specific qualities of the materials by running computer programs. Nor is this reducible to something like Google's PageRank algorithm that makes sense of the vast archive of the internet in distorted ways to 'reify' knowledge and make sure that expression is linked to the market.[5] Rather, the programs produce emergent forms of knowledge – they operate as ‘probes’ in their terms - more a project of forensics than historiography. [6] Friedrich Kittler in particular who argues for combining material conditions and epistemology, as, for example, in acknowledging the software used to write a particular essay,[9] The iterative approach taken therefore suggests an epistemological understanding of archives beyond objects and relations - the conventional tropes of archives - to something far more behavioral, contingent and recursive, Algorithms do not simply “read” information in images or sound files, they do not only “detect” features in data, they also generate new forms, new shapes or new sounds. For instance, when working on the collection of audio cassette recordings made by Kurenniemi in the 1970s, as part of the DATA Radio project (a second installment of the Preliminary Work project focusing on the Kurenniemi's audio cassette diaries),[35] numerous ways to reorganize the material according to its internal structure were explored. That is how Spectrum sort is conceptualized. [36] ---- Common sense. Ossify, calcify Insecurity, doubt, responsibility, modesty, wobble The parasite and its own host Language is/as/is not a bag of words RDF is not a bag of words (but it is not connected either) ---- Jaron Lanier: Anti-intellectualism (you are not a gadget) "Input from real people, packaged, forgetting that they are there" ---- Google: assisted intelligence, not artificial intelligence (thank you very much). where is dissent? it's a beautiful symphony ---- TheGrid.io AI With Taste Algorithms That Understand You It feels like magic, but it isn't. The Grid analyzes your content and then automates thousands of mundane design decisions that no one (not even web designers) like doing. The result? Beautiful websites unique to you, in seconds. http://words.bighugelabs.com/plot.php