Our project's dataset documenting how machine vision is represented in 500 artworks, video games, novels, movies and more is now available at DataverseNO! doi.org/10.18710/2G0XKN

Congratulations to our team member Gabriele de Seta, who won the UiB Humanities Faculty's Young Researcher Award! uib.no/en/hf/152763/e…

I am editing a special issue of Global Media&China titled "China's digital infrastructure: Networks, systems, strandards" - abstracts due May 15th. 🈯️Interdisciplinary approach to the topic 🔓No-fee Open Access ➿Rapid publication CfP: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/Gabr… Get in touch!

In our #BrownBagSeminar next week Gabriele de Seta 胡子哥 @[email protected]/bsky, sannuvola.threads.net will talk about deepfaking himself as a digital ethnographic method. Join us on 17.5. at 12.15 to listen & discuss! ✨ More info here: www2.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-in…

some big project update news - Machine Vision (ERC project) just published a thorough description of our dataset of 500 creative works containing representations and uses of machine vision technologies sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

and if you fancy a restorative fjord retreat to channel your data analysis inspiration, apply to this - deadline is in a couple of weeks, highly recommended for anyone working on cultural representations of AI uib.no/en/machinevisi…

"Building on a dataset of digital games that present embodied surveillance cameras [...] I demonstrate that the camera is crucial in how we organize, understand, and maneuver the fictional environment and its inhabitants." @ragnsolb on Surveillance & Society ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surv…

Vi er overvåket! Ph.d.-kandidat @ragnsolb fra Machine Vision (ERC project) har analysert hvordan digitale spill lar spilleren kontrollere overvåkingskameraer og oppleve "cyborg vision" Sjekk ut videoen under:

CFP: We are inviting submissions to a special issue on Cultural Representations of Machine Vision - here is more info! Please share! uib.no/en/machinevisi…

last day to submit an abstract! The The Open Library of Humanities will publish this as a Special Collection, and you'll be in great company - come on board. uib.no/en/machinevisi…

The Machine Vision team is pretty excited about the new Center of Excellence we and our colleagues are launching - maybe you know someone who'd like one of the PhD positions they're advertising?

Have you been experimenting with #AI image generation tools like @midjourney_ai or DALL-E? According to ERC grant holder @jilltxt at Universitetet i Bergen visual technologies are fundamentally changing the way we see our world. 👇 Full story in 🎧 #podcast 👉 on.soundcloud.com/m3RL2

New paper from our project on the visual registers used in promoting machine vision technologies in China, and how they hide the tech behind abstraction and fantasy. By Gabriele de Seta and Anya Shchetvina: doi.org/10.1007/s00146…. Here's a summary: jilltxt.net/four-visual-re…