Moodboard & Persona : https://daisylulowres.myportfolio.com/moodboard

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qeikERGTqRek_2OahWoafaw3OkwffTxGa2kdtRtqLfQ/edit

Met with Marina and a good continuation from the last talk, even through my thesis focused into a different topic (prior I was thinking of a climate exhibition where the room would become more intolerable as more people moved in it). Particularly James Bridle ‘Ways of Being’ – a book she suggested last meeting – has landed well and became a continuation point.

Discussed my EEG work and she centered in quickly on appropriation of healing modalities using repetitive beats or psychedelic experiences, and asked my background, why am I drawn to this. In a way, “am I a tech bro who did Ayahuasca”? (my words, not hers). The value of my past came out as I explained my Dad teaching me about Taoism (and some Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism) as a child, reading Tao of Pooh and Tao Te Ching in college, meeting fellow ravers in the mid 90’s who grew up in Fairfield, Iowa in the Transcendental Meditation school system (MIU and the high school), learning about Vedic and Hindu traditions from this community, seeing TM applied in David Lynch films and television shows,  learning to meditate from an LSD experience in 1996 (where the chemical experience itself taught me where to go in meditation), then keeping that interest going throughout my adult life, getting sober at 21 and not using chemicals anymore to achieve personal growth or insights, but rather non-chemical tools like meditation, reading Be Here Now in my early twenties and learning more how Richard Alpert went from LSD to meditation. This type of history and possible citation could help contextualize my work to new audiences.

Discussed a number of artists to look at (in notes link below) and discussed if my work could be a connected to the “more than human” world, as discussed in “Ways of Being”

https://jasonjsnell.notion.site/2023-03-28-Intro-to-Thesis-Project-62af517e96f04f83b18f323441dfef1e

1st meeting with Merche, it was very amazing in a sense that I get to hear an artist’s work (even though just a bit) in her (their) own perspective. We touch upon some similar experience of visa, and Merche gave me very valuable information~ And also, the thesis is moving forward to the technical problem solving part, which in steps I will:

 

progress of my thesis so far:

https://first-latency-df1.notion.site/Production-Schedule-c5e932d87db9446ba9dbed926691cf50

Create the simple facial emotion recognition system for testing:

https://www.notion.so/Test-Blog-fa71d11e65d34c1792e55a7ea96ca38f?pvs=4

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HIpfLrQ9ZKmFbzQkVW1coE8_DN6iulrswC995ByGuYo/edit

https://nimble-hyena-06d.notion.site/THESIS-BLOG-3751e783e4de485087e4b74679631080

Audience, verb, successful?

Who was the audience for each?

What was the verb?

Was it successful in enacting that verb?

Also – these projects are all a few years old – what does it mean to do this project right now!?

Or, like raphael lozano-hemmer’s project: is there a more specific application of face detection you’re interested in? for instance, the school example was interesting – does your installation mimic a classroom?

https://www.lozano-hemmer.com/level_of_confidence.php

Level of Confidence is an art project to commemorate the mass kidnapping of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico.

1. Audience: for people who are willing to help, people who disagree with these police technologies are used
2. Verb: subverts, create empathy, maintain visibility on the tragedy
3. It was successful in using this tragedy to create empathy and a way to generate funds for the community, also mentions the police technologies to use it in a totally different way: instead of looking for suspicious culprits but search for the victims.

https://kcimc.medium.com/working-with-faces-e63a86391a93

1. Audience: for people who disagree with the use of face analysis software which continues to grow, enhance the feeling; for white Ameracan who never confronted how whiteness operates
2. Verb: critical, create increasingly uncomfortable criteria, admit the individual complicities and universal dignity
3. It was successful that start with a simple smile and sunglasses, then gradually become to focus on race, criminality, or sexual orientation. In this way, users experience for themselves how we are seen by the algorithms that are increasingly running the world with the increasingly uncomfortable feeling.

https://www.eyebeam.org/kyle-mcdonald-against-fa/

1. Audience: people against face analysis, against the violence of the police and carceral system that is an extension of slavery.
2. Verb: subvert and misuse, critique, weaken
3. It is successful in research and also found out the problems under the system, which is built on violence

https://www.engadget.com/2017-11-09-untrained-eyes-engadget-experience.html

Couldn’t open the link because of the district’s restriction, so I found this link

1. Audience: people who are interested in this technology and people agree with the use but didn’t realize the bias of image searches on the internet
2. Verb: shed light, challenge, disprove
3. I don’t think it is successful, because people will only care about the interesting experience of who they look like but wouldn’t realize the bias and inherent flaws of AI algorithms.

https://adam.harvey.studio/cvdazzle/

1. Audience: People who agree with the use of face detector, and never aware of the harm of the system.
2. Verb: challenge to the growing power asymmetries in computer vision and, in particular, widespread deployment of facial recognition technology, discourages experimenting and probing opaque algorithmic systems, question the system, attempt to break
3. Super successful, and the concepts spread over distance and time, create a steadily growing resistance to face recognition