Looking Outwards-11

Heying Wang Section B

Caroline Sinders, Feminist Data Set (2017)

Caroline Sinders is an artist interested in machine-learning and interdisciplinary areas. She holds a Masters from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. She is also the founder of Convocation Design + Research, an agency focusing on the intersections of machine learning, user research, designing for public good, and solving difficult communication problems. I chose to look at Sinders because many of her works express feminist views, political ideology, and social justice. Her works show an interesting combination of technology, fine arts, and service design. Sinders has been using machine learning a lot in her art creations.

The project that interests me is called Feminist Data Set (2017). It interrogates the AI process including data collection, data labeling, data training, etc. The project is a response to the problem of data harvesting. I think it’s a thought-provoking work that has great importance because these days people’s data are collected easily by large technological companies.The project is a social justice art practice that uses data creation as a protest. The artists’ intentions are uniquely presented. I think it’s creative to make a data-set about political ideology.