A visual culture studies perspective on the possibilities and limitations of artificial intelligence
At the 17:15 Colloquium on 29 October 2020, Dr Margarete Pratschke will talk about computer vision, a field of digital visual culture. Attend virtually and join the discussion!
Computer vision is a field of digital visual culture that, as part of artificial-intelligence research (AI research), is currently advancing at incredible speed. The speaker, Dr Margarete Pratschke, reports on these developments within her current research project on the new “digital amateurism” inherent to AI as a defining visual perspective and tool for working with digital image archives.
Against the backdrop of the growing prevalence of AI-based processes, you can learn about the challenges faced by cultural and memory institutions, in particular, when cataloguing and analysing their digital image archives.
Using current examples, including from the Image Archive of ETH Zurich, this lecture critically engages with the possibilities and limitations of computer vision. There is a particular focus on the extent to which conservative methods and commercial interests pretend to be progressive. The aim of this lecture is therefore also to establish ethical guidelines in the use of AI for cultural and memory institutions.
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