u know me.... im tryed it out now - but stuttered and crashed (must be very popular) but its interesing to here how easily you are scared - which of course is integraed into its marketing - sinister/darkcore ambient sfx and music... fear is the key....
On 13 Dec 2009, at 00:50, Sean Cubitt wrote: > Superscary Sam > I've been looking at some sites which use human labour to tag images > in an > attemtpt to teach computers image recognisiotn, or at least semantic > tagging: one is bona fide (GAWP's ESP game), the other probably less > so > (Google's Image labeller). I was too scared to even start the > program, which > may simply be harvesting facebook data for cokacola - in itself > unpleasant > enough - What wd make it truly scary for me is if you get to choose > who does > or doesn't look like you, implying that the purpose is to teach > machines > facial rceognition. Clearly that exists as a police capability: I > dread it > becoming a proprietary tool of commercial advertising > > I will certainly be using this with my media governance class!! > > thanks > > > sean > > > On 12/12/09 12:53 PM, "sam-myspinach" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> I wonder if anyone can do some research and analysis on this - I am >> too frightened: >> >> http://www.cocacolazero.com/index.jsp#/facialprofiler/ >> >> Thanks, Sam. >> >> >> >> >> >> On 10/12/2009, at 1:40 PM, Kevin Hamilton wrote: >> >>> Christina and all, >>> >>> In any of the advertising for personal music devices or cell phones, >>> listeners experience private pleasure through the knowing smile, and >>> perhaps a look up and to the right. >>> >>> This I would contrast to what actually happens when one reads or >>> hears >>> something funny when in public. For example, me on the bus this >>> morning reading this line from Christina: >>> >>> On Dec 9, 2009, at 1:15 AM, Christina McPhee wrote: >>> >>>> The mistake is the beginning of the mutation. "In the still >>>> cave of >>>> the witch poesy... " >>> >>> Laughing out loud amongst silent commuters, nervous about where to >>> put >>> my smile and body. >>> >>> I'm thinking about all this partly in light of some conversation >>> over >>> on IDC right now, between Brian Holmes and myself, a few others. >>> As an >>> instructor, I'm more and more aware of how my students arrive >>> already >>> trained, configured into a cybernetic matrix. For many of them, >>> their >>> senses are only sensors, ready to accept symbolic input for the >>> production of expected actions. (Hell, I'm not much better.) No >>> documentary is going to reveal the truth for them, there's no >>> narrative moment waiting for them. They need a new sensory >>> experience, >>> to have they eyeballs and eardrums reconfigured in a non- >>> programmatic >>> way. >>> >>> The cyberneticist I've been researching, Heinz von Foerster, was a >>> magician. Literally. Back in the sixties and seventies he would do >>> magic tricks for the students as part of his lectures on >>> consciousness. I'm looking for some tricks like that, through the >>> linguistic and the visual. >>> >>> Thus the word games. Searching for ways to use language that produce >>> transformation without resorting to instrumental manipulation. >>> >>> A typology of wordsmiths, magicians of meaning... >>> >>> Words that could mean anything but which make us all think we're >>> thinking the same thing. >>> [Sarah Palin] >>> >>> Words that can mean two things, and everyone's in on the joke. >>> [Stephen Colbert] >>> >>> [Bottom (from A Midsummer Night's Dream)] >>> Words that mean one thing to the speaker and a different thing to >>> the >>> listener, but only the listener is in on the joke. >>> >>> Words that can mean more than one thing and no one knows which one >>> is >>> right, producing a plenitude of meaning. >>> [Stoppard? I don't know, this one is just thrilling though.] >>> >>> One such overflow that just thrills me in this way is the piece "A >>> Letter to Queen Victoria: The Sundance Kid is Beautiful" by Robert >>> Wilson and Christopher Knowles. >>> >>> http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/dial_a_poem_poets/big_ego/Big_Ego_05-wilson.mp3 >>> >>> But I don't know much about it, and frankly I'm a little unsure >>> about >>> the politics of how this autistic poet Knowles came to work with >>> Wilson. But there's some overflow here, some linguistic plenitude >>> through some mistakes and misapprehension. >>> >>> Kevin >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> empyre forum >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.subtle.net/empyre >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> empyre forum >> [email protected] >> http://www.subtle.net/empyre > > Prof Sean Cubitt > [email protected] > Director > Media and Communications Program > Faculty of Arts > Room 127 John Medley East > The University of Melbourne > Parkville VIC 3010 > Australia > > Tel: + 61 3 8344 3667 > Fax:+ 61 3 8344 5494 > M: 0448 304 004 > Skype: seancubitt > http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/media-communications/ > http://www.digital-light.net.au/ > http://homepage.mac.com/waikatoscreen/ > http://seancubitt.blogspot.com/ > http://del.icio.us/seancubitt > > Editor-in-Chief Leonardo Book Series > http://leonardo.info > > _______________________________________________ > empyre forum > [email protected] > http://www.subtle.net/empyre > _______________________________________________ empyre forum [email protected] http://www.subtle.net/empyre
