1 Technological Conceptions of the Subject Conceptions of the political subject have long been intimately tied to technologies of measure…
Computational Spectatorship: from distant watching to the datamatic – Daniel Chavez Heras
Can audiovisual archives be considered “cultural big data”?
Are moving images like any other type of data?
How can we programme machines to find value in digital moving imagery? What types of machines, and what kinds of value?
Synthetic Bodies and Feeling Generators – Michela De Carlo
In his book Foams – Sphere III, German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk refers to our society as a “pluralism of spherology”, a…
POV-Matter and Machinic POV between Affects and Umwelten – Mitra Azar
Within the broader attempt of embarking in a genealogy and an archeology of POV (Point of View) which aims at providing a framework for analyzing the various regimes of visibility and regimes of truth[2] which coalesce together with different forms of POV and their corresponding Umwelten…
Fantasies of Feeling – Sascha Pohflepp
Why would we want machines to “feel,” perhaps even like a human? To guarantee that a machine can assume the…
Feeling the Algorithm Working: Machine Learning as Cultural Product and Methodology for Cultural Analysis – Tanja Wiehn
This blog post takes a look at the perception of machine learning through three different stages of feelings and in…
The Rise of the Affective Machine: And a Little Bit of Resistance – Anja Breljak
When in the 1990s computer scientist Rosalind Picard startet to envision the field of affective computing, she reports, the problem…
Mechanical Affective Abilities – Maike Klein
Emotion theories and definitions There are thousands of different definitions of “emotion” and other affective phenomena that come with different…
Resisting Touchscreen Sensibilities: The Potential of Non-User-Friendly Interaction Design – Tomasz Hollanek
In the late 2000s, Apple released the original iPhone, a new kind of apparatus equipped with a sensory system of…
Troubling the Accident: Notes on Compression Hacking – Carleigh Morgan
The technique of compression hacking made what is commonly credited as its first appearance with Takeshi Murata’s 2005 short film,…
MACHINE FEELING 2018 