My project proposal was about the intervention of data practices from Google, Facebook, Amazon... into our communication systems and all the human labor happening behind it. I made an annotated diagram that explains that. So for example, the
I wanted to highlight the human involvement into the training of speech recognition software on which Alexa, Siri and other are based on. And the importance of voice as a unique element of our bodies that is collected for training an AI machine. My aim was to make experiments with other people in group sessions were we discuss about our privacy and at the same time the discussion becomes input for a process of activities related to transcribing, listening, eavesdropping, speaking, recording. They would immitate the processes of the speech recognition tools.
medium: live streaming, transcibing, human microphone, internet
tools: live streaming, pad, open source tools
license:
Create public:
how: workshops with inhabitants (daily expression in rotterdam public) and experiments in public spaces, connect with people and communities around patebin, live streaming
why: occupy public space and the contribution of media, externilize the private the need for presence for democratic processes to happen, the conflict with the powerful.
Liveness that the medium provides and engagement with the technology
intentions: division and exclusion in private and public,
Way of approach:
experiments with the tools and practices without the content