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Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Computation Communication Aesthetics & X xCoAx 2019 xCoAx 2019 Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X Milan, Italy Edited by Mario Verdicchio, Miguel Carvalhais, Luísa Ribas, André Rangel Published by Universidade do Porto Praça Gomes Teixeira 4099-002 Porto, Portugal ISBN 978-989-746-220-7 Organising Committee André Rangel, Jason Reizner, Luís Nunes, Luísa Ribas, Mario Verdichio, Miguel Carvalhais Local Organising Committee Marco Santabrogio, Sara Notargiacomo Design Catarina Neves, Miguel Carvalhais Photography Camila Mangueira Soares, Fabrício Fava Panel Moderators Alessandro Ludovico, André Rangel, Boris Debackere, Jason Reizner, Luís Pinto Nunes, Luísa Ribas, Mario Verdicchio, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Philip Galanter, Sophie-Carolin Wagner Doctoral Symposium Chairs Simona Chiodo, Philip Galanter. Special Thanks Sam Baron, Renata Boria, Aurora Morelli, Lia Manzella, Marta Cereda, Marco Rabozzi, Stefano Paraboschi, Enrico Bacis, Marco Rosa, Dario Facchinetti, Matthew Rossi, Nicola Cortesi CONTENTS FOREWORD KEYNOTES 12 Luciana Parisi Computational Design, Epistemological Possibilities and Machine Worlds. 14 Domenico Quaranta Contemporary (Media) Art Between Hype Cycles and the Present Shock PAPERS 17 Tsila Hassine & Ziv Neeman The Spectre of Zombies is Haunting AI Art: How AI Resurrects Dead Masters, and Alternative Suggestions for AI Art and Art History 25 Hanna Schraffenberger, Yana Van De Sande, Gabi Schaap & Tibor Bosse Can you fool the AI? Investigating people’s attitudes towards AI with a smart photo booth 39 Sarah Ciston Imagining Intersectional AI 49 Pedro Costa & Luísa Ribas “Some things you can ask me” about gender and digital assistants 67 Pinelopi Papadimitraki Networked Living 83 Craig Fahner & Matthew Waddell DEEP SOLUTIONS: Artistic interventions in platform capitalism 93 Rodrigo Hernández-Ramírez Surveillance capitalism and the perils of augmented agency 109 Catarina Sampaio, Luísa Ribas & Pedro Ângelo Data (self) Portraits: an Approach to the Visualization of Personal Data from an Autoethnographic Perspective 125 Gaia Tedone Human-Algorithmic Curation:Curating with or against the Algorithm? 140 Adriana Sá & Atau Tanaka The variables of spatial presence: a parametric model 156 Catherine Griffiths Approaches to visualise and critique algorithms for ethical scrutiny 164 Andreas Zingerle & Linda Kronman Information Diving on an E-waste Dump in West Africa – Artistic Remixing of a Global Data Breach 177 Jens Vetter Netz 2.0: Towards Site-Specific Performative Topologies 185 Andreia Machado Oliveira, Kalinka Mallmann, Joceli Sales, Bruno Gottlieb, Lorenzo Schwertner Kaufmann, Eduardo P. Custodio & Hermes Renato Hildebrand Collaborative artistic practices in a Kaingáng community as a dispositif for cultural development 195 Jingyin He serraE: Re-Visioning the Chinese Yu as Mechatronic Musical Instrument towards Revitalization and Preservation 204 Gordan Kreković & Antonio Pošćić Modalities of Improvisation in Live Coding 217 Tom Mudd Between Chaotic Synthesis and Physical Modelling: Instrumentalising with Gutter Synthesis 229 Fabricio Fava, Camila Mangueira Soares & Miguel Carvalhais Interspecies Playful Interaction: Towards the expansion of interaction design 240 Antonio Daniele & Yi-zhe Song Artistic Assemblage 256 Rosemary Lee Aesthetics of Uncertainty 263 Vladimir Todorović & Dejan Grba Helping Machines (Help Us) Make Mistakes: Narrativity in Generative Art 276 Kelly Van Rijsbergen & Alwin De Rooij Art-Science Collaboration: The Role of Problematization and Artefact use ARTWORKS 290 Andrés Villa Torres Signal Polarities 293 André Rangel & Simon Rangel aSail – aSynchronous as in life 297 Karen Ann Donnachie & Andy Simionato The Library of Nonhuman Books 302 Angela Ferraiolo Regeneration of the Earth After Its Destruction by the Capitalist Powers 307 Carl Rethmann Machines Looking at People Looking at Machines 311 Chris Williams Who’s the Dummy? 315 Francisca Rocha Gonçalves & Rodrigo Carvalho Luciferina 320 Andreas Zingerle & Linda Kronman “Forensic fantasies” - Artistic Remixing of a Global Data Breach 324 Marc Lee Me, Myself & I 326 Martin Rumori Promenade Installation at xCoAx 2019 329 Paul Heinicker, Lukáš Likavčan & Qiao Lin alt’ai: designing machine-to-machine interfaces for automated landscapes 334 Philip Galanter evoColorBox 336 Philippe Kocher & Daniel Bisig Stripes PERFORMANCES 341 Alberto Novello LASER DRAWING a synesthetic experience in which you can listen to what you see, and see what you listen to 347 Annina Ruest Bad Mother / Good Mother an audiovisual performance 350 Jingyin He Serrate No. 2 353 Jules Rawlinson SKR1BL 357 Luís Arandas, José Gomes, Gilberto Bernardes & Rui Penha Never The Less: A Performance on Networked Art 362 Martin Rumori & Janhavi Dhamankar “Here we are now” Explorative, participatory text performance based on John Cage’s Lecture on Nothing DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM 366 Linda Kronman Machine Vision in Digital Art 371 Naja Le Fevre Grundtmann Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas: An Iconology of Difference 372 Paul Dunham The Sounds of Obsolescence in the Age of Digital Re-Production 375 Sabina Hyoju Ahn Multi-sensory transformation of biological signals 380 Tomasz Hollanek Speculating on Artificial Intelligence from Early Photography to Contemporary Design COMMITTEES SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Adriana Sá Alice Eldrige ESAD/CICANT University of Sussex André Rangel Andreas Broeckmann CITAR / i2ADS Leuphana Arts Program, Lüneburg Andreas Muxel Andreas Zingerle Faculty of Design at University of KairUs, Austria Applied Sciences Augsburg Andres Burbano Anne Balsamo School of Architecture and Design, University of Texas at Dallas Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Anneké Pettican Arne Eigenfeldt Department Lead Art & Communication, Simon Fraser University University of Huddersfield Boris Debackere Carlos Guedes V2 / Luca School of Arts New York University Abu Dhabi Chara Lewis Christian Faubel Manchester School of Art, Academy of Media Arts Cologne Manchester Metropolitan University Cristina Sá Dale Macdonald CITAR / Portuguese Catholic University, University of Texas at Dallas School of Arts Daniel Schorno David Pirrò STEIM Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz Eduardo Roig Filipe Pais Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Ensadlab, Ensad, Paris Francisco Cardoso Lima Frieder Nake Independent Artist, Aveiro University of Bremen & Hochschule für Künste Bremen Hanns Holger Rutz Heitor Alvelos University of Music and ID+ / Faculty of Fine Arts, Performing Arts Graz University of Porto Irina Spicka João Cordeiro CC4AV CITAR / University of West London Jason Reizner Jon He Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Massey University Jon McCormack Kristin Mojsiewicz Monash University Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh Linda Kronman Lucía Jalón Oyarzun University of Bergen, Norway Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Luís Gustavo Martins Luísa Ribas CITAR / Portuguese Catholic University CIEBA / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon Manuela Naveau Mario Verdicchio Ars Electronica Università degli Studi di Bergamo Martin Kaltenbrunner Miguel Carvalhais Kunstuniversität Linz INESC TEC / i2ADS / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto Mitchell Whitelaw Mona Kasra College of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Virginia Australian National University Nathan Wolek Nuno N. Correia Stetson University University of Greenwich Patrícia João Reis Paulo Ferreira Lopes University of Applied Arts Vienna, IMG - University of Applied Austria, Department of Digital Arts Sciences Mainz Pedro Cardoso Penousal Machado INESC TEC / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Coimbra University of Porto Philip Galanter Ricardo Melo Texas A&M University CEOS.PP / Polytechnic of Porto. Porto Accounting and Business School Rodrigo Hernández-Ramírez Rosemary Lee UNIDCOM / Instituto de Arte, IT-University Copenhagen Design e Empresa (IADE) Roxanne Leitão Rui Penha Central Saint Martins, INESC TEC / FEUP University of the Arts London Rui Torres Samuel Van Ransbeeck Electronic Literature Organization / UCP-CITAR Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University Fernando Pessoa, Porto Sophie-Carolin Wagner Shusha Niederberguer Austrian National Library / RIAT House of Electronic Arts Basel Tim Boykett Titus Von Der Malsburg Time’s Up Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam Thor Magnusson Valentina Nisi University of Sussex / ixi audio University of Madeira Valentina Vuksic Victoria Bradbury Zurich University of the Arts University of North Carolina, Asheville ORGANISING COMMITTEE André Rangel Jason Reizner CITAR / i2ADS Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Luís Nunes Luísa Ribas i2ADS / Faculty of Fine Arts, CIEBA / Faculty of Fine Arts, University University of Porto of Lisbon Mario Verdichio Miguel Carvalhais Università degli Studi di Bergamo INESC TEC / i2ADS / Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE Marco Santambrogio Sara Notargiacomo Politecnico di Milano / NECTS, iDRESD Politecnico di Milano / NECTS, iDRESD 9 FOREWORD Welcome to the proceedings of the 7th edition of the Conference on Com- putation, Communication, Aesthetics and X, also known as xCoAx, which took place from July 3rd to July 5th 2019 in Milan, Italy. Initially slated to take place at Politecnico di Milano, a place full of nostalgic value where several members of the organising committee first met a decade ago, xCoAx 2019 found a new home at Fabbrica del Vapore, a 30,000-square-meter former industrial complex
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    big data and cognitive computing Article From Big Data to Deep Learning: A Leap Towards Strong AI or ‘Intelligentia Obscura’? Stefan Strauß ID Institute of Technology Assessment (ITA), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1030, Austria; [email protected] Received: 1 June 2018; Accepted: 16 July 2018; Published: 17 July 2018 Abstract: Astonishing progress is being made in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and particularly in machine learning (ML). Novel approaches of deep learning are promising to even boost the idea of AI equipped with capabilities of self-improvement. But what are the wider societal implications of this development and to what extent are classical AI concepts still relevant? This paper discusses these issues including an overview on basic concepts and notions of AI in relation to big data. Particular focus lies on the roles, societal consequences and risks of machine and deep learning. The paper argues that the growing relevance of AI in society bears serious risks of deep automation bias reinforced by insufficient machine learning quality, lacking algorithmic accountability and mutual risks of misinterpretation up to incrementally aggravating conflicts in decision-making between humans and machines. To reduce these risks and avoid the emergence of an intelligentia obscura requires overcoming ideological myths of AI and revitalising a culture of responsible, ethical technology development and usage. This includes the need for a broader discussion about the risks of increasing automation and useful governance approaches to stimulate AI development with respect to individual and societal well-being. Keywords: artificial intelligence; deep learning; autonomy; automation; bias; algorithmic accountability; Turing test; ELIZA effect; technology assessment 1.