"Establishes the postsensual turn in visual culture and curatorial work, which embraces research, publishing, and knowledge production as central tenets of the new global aesthetics"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Coyne examines urban living through the frame of cryptography, diving into the technologies, instruments, and processes of hiding information, messages, things, spaces, places, and people within cities"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Argues that what makes AI socially relevant and useful is not intelligence at all but something even more human: communication. If machines are going to improve their ability to address ever more important human issues, it will not be because they have learned to think like people, but because we have learned to communicate with them"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
The power of art and design to create a life worth living: designs, inventions, and artworks from the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan. This book shows how refugees use art and design to transform their living environments, restoring humanity within circumstances that seem aimed at depriving them of it. Featuring more than twenty projects created by Syrian refugees at the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jord…
"Broussard argues that the structural inequalities reproduced in algorithmic systems are no glitch. They are part of the system design. This book shows how everyday technologies embody racist, sexist, and ableist ideas; how they produce discriminatory and harmful outcomes; and how this can be challenged and changed"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"After Eating explores the emerging field of metabolic arts, practices which engage the materials and methodologies of not only food and ingestion but also digestion and metabolism"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Computational Formalism investigates examples of art historical analysis in the fields of computer and information sciences, and frames this research in the context of art historiography. The use of machine learning to analyze art images has ushered in a renewed interest in formalism in art history, but these new techniques create new critical challenges for the field"--OCLC-licensed vendor bi…
"The authors of Machines Like Us explore what it would take to endow computers with the kind of common sense that humans depend on every day--critically needed for AI systems to be successful in the world and to become trustworthy"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"The author builds on insights developed from observations of Mexico's earthquake early warning system, Sistema de Alerta S?ismica Mexicano, to show how particular social and physical conditions animate the design, maintenance, and use of environmental monitoring technologies, and how they shape where, when, and for whom these technologies manage risk"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Selfie Democracy exposes the unintended consequences of wireless technologies on political leadership and shows how seemingly benign mobile devices that hold out the promise of direct democracy ultimately undermine representative forms of government and deepen partisan divides. As the smart phone and mobile applications are reshaping civic participation, attitudes about freedom, civic rights, …