Dear spectres,
In September The Photographers’ Gallery digital programme will be
exploring the cultural significance of the ImageNet dataset, unpacking
social media curating in an age of photographic surplus, and speculating
on image classification in the 21st Century - please see details below!
Curating Social Media Symposium, 12th & 13th Sept, FREE
https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/workshop/curating-social-media
A two day event which brings together artists, critics, academics,
curators and social media misfits to explore photography’s relationship
to the ‘curation economies’ of the museum, web and cloud. How might
photography be curated in the context of post-scarcity? How is
photography being mobilised to create new vectors of attention and value
online? What is the role of the curator working within online platforms?
Speakers include: Brian Droitcour (Art in America), Olia Lialina
(artist), Felix Magal (Museum of Internet), Anika Meier (Monopol/This
Ain’t Art School), Olga Goriunova (Scholar), Annet Dekker (Curator),
Hannah Ray (Condé Nast/Vogue), Wolfgang Wild (Retronaut), Matthew
Plummer-Fernandez (artist).
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What Does the Dataset Want? Photography & Classification in the 21st
Century
Symposium followed by launch of Heather Dewey-Hagborg Commission, 14th
Sept 13:30 - 18:00
https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/talks-and-events/symposium-what-does-dataset-want
A symposium exploring the crucial role of photographic datasets in the
development of machine vision and artificial intelligence, in
collaboration with the AI Now Institute. The day will conclude with
opening drinks for a new commission by Heather Dewey-Hagborg for The
Media Wall.
Speakers include: Zach Blas, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Nicolas Malevé,
Daniel Rubinstein, Katrina Sluis, Jon Uriate, Anna Ridler
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10th Birthday Party for ImageNet, with a talk by Dr Fei-Fei Li, Sat 21st
Sept 4-7pm
https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/imagenetbirthday
ImageNet has become one of the most influential photographic datasets in
the fields of Deep Learning and AI. More than 14 million photographs
were gathered through a benchmarking effort that propelled the outbreak
of Computer Vision and its wide range of applications such as
surveillance, phone filters, medical imaging, biometry and autonomous
cars. ImageNet is organised through 21,000 categories that are still
being used today to train computational models.
On Saturday afternoon we will celebrate the 10th anniversary of ImageNet
with a series of playful challenges, activities and artists’
presentations to showcase the impact of ImageNet, including a talk by
its creator Dr Fei-Fei Li <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fei-Fei_Li> of
Stanford University/AI4ALL.
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