Media Arts and Technology

Describe your final project in a brief paragraph and add a pdf that is your research report. The pdf should include: Title: Through the Looking Screen-Glass: The Invisible Labor of Commercial Content Moderators (CCM) Name: Sienna Parker Abstract: On the internet, the scale of user-generated content ...

Throughout the past few weeks of class, we have had several conversations of text-visual AI systems. For instance, Fabian Offert presented his imgs.ai search engine for digital art and described how machine learning can distinguish between different classes and categories to help identify canons of ...

This week’s classes caught my interest in our discussion of Alfred Yarbus’s work in the 1950s and 1960s on eye-tracking. In summary, Alfred Yarbus was a Russian psychologist who tracked observers’ eye movements as they moved around a scene. In class, we talked specifically about Yarbus’ study of “Th...

After our conversation about computational aesthetics, something I kept thinking about that we didn’t discuss in much detail is the appraisal of human beauty. From several articles for the week, a common theme was how researchers, scientists, and artists grapple with how to measure aesthetics. Howev...

From this week’s class, something that caught my attention was our discussion about the iPhone’s front-facing camera. In particular, the concept of using 3D depth cameras and other imaging technologies to create biometric data is a something that I wanted to explore more. In the case of Apple, when ...

For this week’s post, I thought to continue my reflections on images, power, and Internet platforms. Of particular interest to me was our discussion on how to blur an image. Specifically, during this conversation, I immediately thought of blurring is often used as a mechanism for censorship or priva...

*** Please see revised version below in bold **** Something that was fascinating to me in this week’s lectures was how photography was used as a part of the colonization of the Western United States. We briefly discussed the photography of Edward C. Curtis and how his portraits of Native Americans h...

One topic from the past two weeks of class that caught my attention was the concept of metadata. Specifically, a major difference between analog and digital photography is that digital photography captures metadata while analog photography does not. This concept stuck out to me for two reasons. Firs...