After reading an interview with Belgian concept artist Dries Depoorter, I am surprised part of his portfolio has not been presented on this website yet, so...
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Podcast – Coded Bias: AI in Power
In this podcast, we (Mehak, Isabel, and Lara) talk about the documentary “Coded Bias,” directed by Shalini Kantayya. The documentary discusses how biased the algorithms used...
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Introduction Welcome to the Voyage of Digitality & the Internet. Joined by Savvina Daniil, PhD researcher at the Human-Centred AI workgroup of the Centrum Wiskunde &...
Continue reading...He works, but she is naked — gender bias in translation
Last week, I came across a post which highlights one of the issues of training AI with massive data sets and little oversight. Discussed is a...
Continue reading...The societal issues adressed in WALL-E
Today I want to discuss Disney’s iconic movie WALL-E from 2008 and the societal issues it addresses. I hadn’t seen the movie for a very long...
Continue reading...Clip-who? Looking back on Microsoft’s best worst Office Assistant
Spurred by this week’s prompt being “what is an early memory of digital technology”, I took a deep dive in my childhood. Suddenly I remembered an...
Continue reading...Living the most undignified life in a high-tech world
The “low-life” in cyberpunk not merely means material hardship, but more of a spiritual bullying: contempt for human self-esteem. According to Wikipedia, low-life people are those...
Continue reading...The AI Poet
This week, I encountered a post on my timeline that really caught my interest. Essentially, the post is a poem that was written by an AI....
Continue reading...AI: Nerf-guns are for babies
The Hermitage in Amsterdam recently opened its new exhibition; love, passion & tragedy. Showcasing a diverse collection of portraits, muses, and artists all centred around romantic,...
Continue reading...Is AI Art Art? Well, It’s In The Name, Isn’t It?
If you have any artist friends, chances are they’ve recently mentioned mentioned AI-generated art. Chances also are that they’re concerned about it. Is AI-generated art really art? What future do human artists have, if algorithms can generate images that win in art competitions?
Continue reading...Art-fical Intelligence, Art and Creativity
It has been my understanding, since growing up in a household of artists, that creativity is a sacred and intrinsic aspect of the human consciousness. Throughout...
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AI in South-Korean media
A couple of months ago a new K-pop group debuted with one of the six members being an AI and Korean AI influencers are gaining a...
Continue reading...Fear of the AI – a valid concern or just a common misrepresentation?
With the growth of technology and the rise of the internet, various types of Artificial Intelligence have infiltrated almost every step of our digital life, ranging...
Continue reading...TikTok Trend ‘Ask AI to draw’: can AI replace handmade art?
Introduction In the digital society we currently live in we come across many trends. One of the trends I came upon is the ‘Ask AI’ trend...
Continue reading...What defines humans and computers? In need of a new Turing Test
Human body with a computer head standing within skyscrapers, digital art When I was giving the title to this article (usually the most daunting part of...
Continue reading...Conceptualizing Cyborgs in the Virtual and Physical World: With Consideration to Feminism and its Connection to Video Games
Introduction It was Christmas 2006 when I first experienced that there were different expectations to genders and what society expected me to enjoy as a young...
Continue reading...The New Age of Chess: Harnessing the Power of Computers in a Digital Age
This blog was inspired by the Week 10 “Are Computers Having Fun?” chess game that was suggested. I am not a good chess player but I...
Continue reading...Enter the Matrix: An Exploration of Digital Futures (Part 2)
In the second part of this three-part podcast on the future-shaping potential of current trends in technology, Andrea Blätler, Fiona ‘t Hart and I discuss the...
Continue reading...Enter the Matrix: An Exploration of Digital Futures (Part 1)
In the first part of this three-part podcast on the future-shaping potential of current trends in technology, Andrea Blätler, Fiona ‘t Hart and I discuss videogame...
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