POSTcard Landscapes from Lanzarote

Abstract

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Machine Learning Processes As Sources of Ambiguity: Insights from AI Art

“…Documentation of the ML process were sometimes presented in metatext accompanying the work, such as in the websites for Machine Bias, Learning to See, POSTcard Landscapes from Lanzarote, Butcher's Son, ImageNet Roulette, in transitu, Unsupervised and Biometric Mirror. Further explanations are frequently offered elsewhere in texts written by the artists such as essays [28,88], academic papers [5,43,81,82,91] and a PhD dissertation [3].…”

“…These labels came from ImageNet, one of the most widely used training datasets in computer vision [28]. The artists collected public photographs of the island on Flickr that represent these two perspectives [43]. The videos show the latent space of two generative models, each trained on one of the two sets of images.…”

“…Through a custom piece of software called "Latent Space Browser, " the system generates images from the latent space of the model, resulting in fluid interpolations of colors, shapes, and patterns emerging from the corpus of the collection without ever representing any specific work as such. [43] and ImageNet Roulette [69] in transitu (Fig. 4, bottom) by Ada Ada Ada [1] explores gender recognition by commercial image analysis systems.…”

“…Fig.3. From top to bottom: Biometric Mirror[91],POSTcard Landscapes from Lanzarote[43] and ImageNet Roulette[69] …”