Generative Aesthetics: Feminist Methods in Digital Spaces
- 1. GENERATIVE AESTHETICS FEMINIST METHODS IN DIGITAL SPACES Gillian Smith @gillianmsmith www.sokath.com
- 2. feminist perspectives on computing ➤ working outside disciplinary boundaries ➤ critiquing software through a feminist lens ➤ creating computational systems that intersect traditionally feminine practices
- 3. about me ➤ computer science ➤ artificial intelligence ➤ human-computer interaction ➤ beyond computer science ➤ fiber arts ➤ jewelry ➤ history ➤ language ➤ play ➤ music
- 4. computational creativity designing software that (semi-)autonomously creates art hoopla collaboration viv
- 6. computational creativity and formal modeling ➤ specification of desirable content, attained via: ➤ underlying data ➤ algorithmic structure ➤ notions of human creativity ➤ embedded meaning ➤ novelty and value ➤ historical, cultural context
- 7. we escape culpability because software is “rational”
- 8. embedded biases ➤ generative systems produce a specification of sample artifacts ➤ explicit ➤ implicit ➤ what are the constituent parts? ➤ what are the probabilities they’ll be chosen? seen? ➤ how is information organized? www.icongenerators.net
- 9. Courtney Toder, work-in-progress software should support richer identity models
- 10. cultural knowledge ➤ human creatives act within their own cultural context ➤ software alternatives ➤ crowdsourcing ➤ “expert” system ➤ what is ground truth? ➤ what is subjective truth? ➤ how is it contextualized?
- 11. content filtering is insufficient
- 12. computational craft computation as craft craft as computation
- 13. threadsteading: strategy gaming for embroidery machines
- 14. generative design through gameplay
- 16. shared history of craft and computation
- 17. working outside disciplinary boundaries
- 18. GENERATIVE AESTHETICS FEMINIST METHODS IN DIGITAL SPACES Gillian Smith @gillianmsmith www.sokath.com