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Hi I'm Sarah Ciston, an artist-researcher doing things in Critical AI and Critical–Creative Coding. I'm based in Cologne at the Academy of Media Arts, continuing the Code Collective lab I started in Los Angeles in 2019. I make work about the mili…
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Such a great discussion already started here, @jarahmo thank you for invoking the Zoe Leonard piece. I have been thinking the same, as I work on a piece about Broken Machines (Sarah Sharma), Glitch Feminism, and GPTs. Forgive the personal share here…
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Thanks for asking about the ListTrainer process, @siusoon It was interesting working with a premade tool like chatterbot which tries to provide a more immediate conversation, after building my own (not quite) chatbot to interact with the reddit co…
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Thank you to @siusoon and @geoffcox for this glimpse into the text generating process! I have been curious in particular about the process for training the model on the entire book in order to generate the new chapter. I shyly reached out to Winnie …
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File this under other materials that might prove useful, I'd add this can be a space for strategies around teaching and learning critical code personally or professionally as well. Some examples are already jumping out in other threads. Here are few…
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Hi all! I'm Sarah (they/she), a PhD candidate in Media Arts + Practice at USC, where I lead Creative Code Collective—a student community for learning programming with interdisciplinary, intersectional approaches. My research explores how to make …
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I would second the comments from @annatito. I have never made a pull request to a project that I don't own! It feels too intimidating not knowing the unspoken etiquette for a particular project, or even sometimes the technical gotchas of github, and…
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I love this code example because it really gets my head spinning about the purpose of language and the purpose of access. I'm sure many folks are theorizing this in several overlapping disciplines and I'm a n00b (how great that code can be an entry …
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This thread brings up such an important, complex question, and it really resonates with the work Feminist Search is trying to do with their "data donation" model (in the main thread and code thread for week 3). I also make AI-driven participatory…
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@jeremydouglass said: This highlights one of the (many) ways that Google is cheating, so to speak, at visual search with image input. In addition to recognizing or classifying the image itself, they are often also reading whatever pages they k…
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Hi, I'm excited to talk with and learn from you all. My background is in experimental creative writing and self-taught coding. As a PhD student at USC, I research and make computational media art that focuses on co-writing with algorithms, immers…
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I suspect that one of the beauties, and meanings, of "amazon.html" lies in its minimalism. Considering Tisselli's history of ecological/materially conscious work ("Why I Stopped Creating E-Lit", 2011), it makes sense to me to chose simple characters…
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Definitely guilty of pausing to parse the code! When I spotted React, that got me thinking both about React's approach that makes use of a 'virtual DOM' and also about its makers at Facebook. Maybe the easier inclination when engaging with scienc…
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Hi all—I'm an experimental writer and Annenberg Fellow in Media Arts + Practice at the University of Southern California. My work includes creative-critical digital projects such as a chatbot that tries to explain feminism to trolls on Reddit, an in…