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1. Introductory email (YASMIN DISCUSSIONS)
2. wwwasp: algorithmic bias and aesthetic computing-
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 12:50:20 -0600
From: YASMIN DISCUSSIONS <yasmin_discussions@ntlab.gr>
To: "yasmin_discussions@ntlab.gr" <yasmin_discussions@ntlab.gr>
Subject: [Yasmin_discussions] Introductory email
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Hello everyone,
My name is Catalina, I'm a designer from Colombia, currently based in Dallas,
U.S.
My areas of research are Participatory Art & Design, and Feminist Science
and Technology Studies. I'm currently exploring technologies and machine
learning algorithms involved in aggravating mass incarceration in the U.S.,
and creating visualizations of such systems.
You can explore the rest of my work here: www.crystal-violet.com
I'm looking for opportunities to collaborate with organizations, art
collectives or residences in the U.S. and Latin America, interested in
exploring issues of algorithmic bias, policing, design and pedagogy.
Excited to be part of this list, and looking forward to learning from you
all!
Catalina Alzate
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2019 21:08:01 -0600
From: YASMIN DISCUSSIONS <yasmin_discussions@ntlab.gr>
To: yasmin_discussions@ntlab.gr
Subject: [Yasmin_discussions] wwwasp: algorithmic bias and aesthetic
computing-
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Catalina
interesting that you bring up "algorithmic bias". As you may know Paul
Fishwick
and I organised a workshop at Dahgstuhl in germany on 'Aesthetic Computing'
the book was published: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/aesthetic-computing
with contributions from the Mignoneaux
wolfgang strauss, diana gromala, donna cox, jau bolter and others
we noted: The assumption behind aesthetic computing is that the field of
computing will be enriched if it embraces all of aesthetics. Human-computer
interaction will benefit?"usability," for example, could refer to improving
a user's emotional state?and new models of learning will emerge.
One area that we didnt anticipate very well was how computing systems,
most notably AI right now, all
use implicit biases that arent always explicit. Fishwick currently
emphasises the importance of 'modelling' followed by varieties of
visualisation to make implicit biases explicit: what is connected to
what-and what cannot be connected to what, not by design but reflecting the
biaseses of the coders. How do coders co-design with the cultural
communities they claim to benefit ?
This is part of a larger naivete i think that we all had in the 80s and 90s
that somehow the internet would be a 'neutral" medium. The question now
clearly posed of what biases we WANT to have in the algorythms,
the artscitech communities of practices are astride all these questions-
but maybe paul and i
made a mistake in not talking about both the ethics and aesthetic computing
i look forward to your thoughts given your cultural background (Colombia)
but aslo a variety
of professional backgrounds.
i was struck on your website: www.crystal-violet.com
the project
AMBULANT SELLERS AND THEIR COLLECTIVE IMAGINARIES ON MONEY
<https://www.crystal-violet.com/espantildeol1/los-vendedores-ambulantes-y-sus-imaginarios-colectivos-sobre-el-dinero>
https://www.crystal-violet.com/espantildeol1/los-vendedores-ambulantes-y-sus-imaginarios-colectivos-sobre-el-dinero
what is the collective imaginary of the yasmin network !
roger malina
*hello everyone,*
*My name is Catalina, I'm a designer from Colombia, currently based in
Dallas, U.S.*
*My areas of research are Participatory Art & Design, and Feminist Science
and Technology Studies. I'm currently exploring technologies and machine
learning algorithms involved in aggravating mass incarceration in the U.S.,
and creating visualizations of such systems.*
*You can explore my work here: www.crystal-violet.com
<http://www.crystal-violet.com>*
*I'm looking for opportunities to collaborate with organizations, art
collectives or residences in Latin America, interested in exploring issues
of xT, design and pedagogy.*
*Excited to be part of this list, and looking forward to learning from you
all.*
*Catalina (Alzate)*
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