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 of the Shannon diagram of a general communication system that explains that from my perspective. So for example in the case of training a speech regognition tool,....(explain one route with listening and transcribing). At the same time these tools (like the automatic dialect analysis) are used from the state of Germany to verify the claims of origin of refugees. So there is the reality of the user, mostly western, that becomes part of the loop and the other body that is being tested.
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 of the Shannon diagram of a general communication system. So for example in the case of training a speech regognition tool,....(explain one route with listening and transcribing). At the same time these tools (like the automatic dialect analysis) are used from the state of Germany to verify the claims of origin of refugees. So there is the reality of the user, mostly western, that becomes part of the loop and the other body that is being tested.
I wanted to highlight the human involvement into this loop and the importance of voice as a unique element of our bodies that is collected into a big pool of trained data. My aim was to make experiments with other people in group sessions where we would discuss about our privacy and at the same time the discussion would become input for a process of human activities. Like transcribing, listening, eavesdropping, speaking, recording, repeating. They would immitate the processes of the training of speech recognition tools. Here is a diagram made by somebody else that explains further the exploitation of user's speech data and the free labor for the Amazon echo.
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...i am very interested in the databanks that contain different material from a public domain (online broadcasting, transcripts, readings online, livestreaming). Voice samples of users used by Amazon without their consent.
...i am very interested in the databanks that contain different material from a public domain (online broadcasts, transcripts, readings online, livestreaming). Voice samples of users used by Amazon without their consent.
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My idea for repeating these actions, immitate conversations, transcribing, eavesdroping came from these databanks. There are limitless actions happening from users that produce and publish so much material online.
My purpose was to strengthen our awareness for our involvement in the loop and answer some questions that bother me. Some of these questions is how our bodies are influenced by these systems, what is the control over them and how can we appropriate these new technologies more consciously? It seems to me that in all this process our personal body [cultural, physical, political, gender] disappears. My plan was to organise a workshop at Leeszaal first where the visitors and the volunteers are permanent inhabitants of Netherlands but are coming from different countries. I assume that they have different relations to these tools and databanks.
My purpose was to strengthen our awareness for our involvement in the loop and answer some questions that bother me. Like how our bodies are influenced by these systems, what is the control over them and how can we appropriate these new technologies more consciously? It seems to me that in all this process our personal body [cultural, physical, political, gender] disappears. My plan was to organise a workshop at Leeszaal first, where the visitors and the volunteers are permanent inhabitants of Netherlands but are coming from different countries. I assume that they have different relations to these tools and databanks.
##Workshop
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##My research turn - voice in public:
The workshop was missing content and after the feedback I got from the participants and the outcome of it I started researching on transcripts of public speeches and that led me on my interest on the presence of the voice and the body in public with the contribution of media.
The workshop was missing content and after the feedback I got from the participants and the outcome of it I started researching on transcripts of public speeches and that led me on my interest on the presence of the voice in public with the contribution of media.
So I started to focus my research on public speeches and assemblies with the aid of media. I am very interested in the voice and its ability to connect people but also to express the uniqueness of the speaker. I looked at specific examples of counter communication for speeches of resistance that I had come accross in a previous research.
So I started to focus my research on public speeches and assemblies. I am very interested in the voice and its ability to connect people but also to express the uniqueness of the speaker. I looked at specific examples of counter communication for speeches of resistance that I had come accross in a previous research.
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I annotated again the Shannon diagram for each example.
So, in feminists movements speech-making workshops were helping women to express the violence in their private space (their home) to the public domain that was dominated by male voices. They were privatizing listening and horizontal communication. The presence of them in public was very important. There was a strong division between private for women and public for men that keeps up till today. //Explain the green// I am interested in the relation of private and public, to be exposed to the public through a multiple mediated process.
So, in feminists movements speech-making workshops were helping women to express the violence in their private space (their home) to the public domain that was dominated by male voices. They were privatizing listening and horizontal communication. The presence of them in public was very important. //Explain the green//.
The other example: In 2011 in occupy movement speech and voice played also an important role. Public assemblies and speeches were held every day by citizens in squares. The presence is important for democratic processes to happen. It was not allowed to use amplifying devices in some public spaces so the crowd became the "human microphone", repeating what the speaker says. Youtube and live streaming was used for the fast communication of the public assemblies in internet and were perfectly fitted in the urgency of those actions.
//Explain the red one// A very fast process from the people using the available tools. And the companies realised that and developed their own livestreaming like facebook, instagram where people stream live videos from demonstrations, terrorists attacts. An urgent tool without the need for mainstream media.
I see streaming as a bottom-up approach for establishing rapid (though temporary) communication.
//Explain the red one//
Similarly radio activists were always broadcasting community radio shows or spreading political speeches again with this need for rapid streaming.
I see streaming as a bottom-up approach for establishing rapid (though temporary) communication. The companies realised that and developed their own livestreaming like facebook, instagram where people stream live videos from demonstrations, terrorists attacks. Mainstream media not needed.
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##New approach in my proposal:
###what
I want to organise group sessions with conversations on public speech and live-streaming that connect the public space with the private, the digital with the physical and explores the possibilities of these processes in both spaces and the potentials for a more active/agonistic public domain. Conversations on privacy and claiming rights in the public with our own voice. At the same time I will engage with the tools and practices that are related to these phenomenon. The sessions could take the form of workshops and give me feedback for the development of a media object [tool or a hack to the tool]. I would try these sessions in physical public spaces, where the exploitation of citizens data and their restriction and control is present and explore the edges of it.
I want to organise group sessions with conversations on public speech and live-streaming that connect the public space with the private, the digital with the physical and explores the possibilities of these processes in both spaces and the potentials for a more agonistic public domain. At the same time I will engage with the tools and practices that are related to these phenomenon. The sessions could take the form of workshops and give me feedback for the development of a media object [tool or a hack to the existing tools]. I would try these sessions in physical public spaces, where the exploitation of citizens data and their restriction and control is present.
I found several restrictions regarding public assemblies here. In Rotterdam, in Afrikaandermarkt, there is a ban on public assembly, for anti-hooliganism in the past and anti-terrorist concerns now. In some spaces surveillance with several technologies and devices is applied [CCTV,photographing for data collectoin]. The installation of these devices in the public space conflicts with the constitution for privacy rights of the citizens.
I found several restrictions regarding public assemblies here for axample. In Rotterdam, in Afrikaandermarkt, there is a ban on public assembly, for anti-hooliganism in the past and anti-terrorist concerns now. In some spaces surveillance with several technologies and devices is applied [CCTV,photographing for data collectoin] that conflicts with the constitution for privacy rights of the citizens.
###How
####Example of workshop. //Explain the blue//
A workshop discussion on public speech, assemblies and privacy in Leeszaal:
- Reflecting the issues on the rights on speech and open use of public spaces. In origin countries and here. Are women able to speak in public? What about immigrants? What is the relation with the technology used for streaming, or recording in demonstrations, public speeches?
- Prototyping with these devices- live streaming-, archive our speeches and make them public.
A workshop in Leeszaal:
- Reflecting the issues on the rights on speech and open use of public spaces. In origin countries and here. Interrogating if women are able to speak in public. What about immigrants? What is the experience and the relation with the technology used for streaming, or recordings in demonstrations, public speeches?
- Prototyping with these daily technologies and devices, archive our converastions/speeches and make them public.
- Using the practices of human microphone, collective editing (pad and git), listening, transcribing, live streaming.
###Why
I come from a country were the public presence and resistance is important, gender inequalities are reflected in the public and private spaces and the engagememt with the technology is divided in the male expert and the other amateur. Now I live in a country were the public presence is highly controlled and surveilled and the claiming for rights is expressed mostly in bureaucratic procedures. The physical representation and face to face communication not on priority in matters of democracy and agonistic arena. I felt the need to explore ways of presence in the public space and embrace the related technology through my own eyes. Interrogating the contribution of daily technologies.
The reason I am doing that: I come from a country were the public presence and resistance is important, gender inequalities are reflected in the public and private spaces and the engagememt with the technology is divided in the male expert and the other amateur. Now I live in a country were the public presence is highly controlled and surveilled and the claiming for rights is expressed mostly in bureaucratic procedures. The physical representation and face to face communication not in priority in matters of democracy and agonistic arena. I felt the need to explore ways of presence in the public space and embrace the related technology through my own eyes. But also, interrogating the contribution of daily technologies in that.
Angeliki
6 years ago