Agenda
- 1. Introduction: Making art in the time of COVID-19, Meriem Bennani’s Lizard Series
- 2. Nica’s lecture: Self-Capture
- 2. Golan’s lecture: Simple ML Classifiers
- Google Teachable Machine
- ml5.js Classifier
- Coding Train ml5.js Webcam Classifier tutorial
- 3. Reminder: Making Art Safely & Ethically:
- Syllabus reminder #1: “Your Project collaborator, if you have one, must be in this class. For the purposes of this course, you may not collaborate with people from outside the course.”
- Syllabus reminder #2: “You are prohibited from creating capture scenarios which put yourself, your subject, or anyone else in mortal danger.”
- 4. Reminders for Tuesday April 7:
- Read: In Defense of the Poor Image, by Hito Steyerl, https://www.e-flux.
com/journal/10/61362/in- defense-of-the-poor-image/ - Read: Screens Shot, by Jacob Gaboury, https://www.
fotomuseum.ch/en/explore/ still-searching/series/156213_ screens_shot. Note that this essay has five pages (the red links: Techniques for Secondary Mediation, Picturing Computation, What You See Is What You Get, Screen Selfies and High Scores, Screenshot or It Didn’t Happen). - Offering Prompt: “Self-capture in Poor Images”: Create an annotated collection of three “poor images” that index or depict yourself. More details.
- Read: In Defense of the Poor Image, by Hito Steyerl, https://www.e-flux.
- 5. Nina Katchadourian in-class visiting artist lecture, Thursday 4/9
- 6. Other: Slit-Scan demo
- 7. Individual meetings as necessary.