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      The Limits of Algorithmic Perception: technological Umwelt

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      Politics of the Machines - Art and After (EVA Copenhagen)
      Digital arts and culture
      15 - 17 May 2018
      Umwelt, Ecology, Perception, Cybernetics, Algorithms, Adversarial images, Biosemiotics, Digital art
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            Abstract

            The algorithmic processes underlying digital media entail that elements of the unseen are integrated into processes of visualization. What is visible in a digital image, for instance, is merely the tangible output of procedures which are obscured from view. Borrowing from ecological theory, using Jacob von Uexkuell’s concept, the Umwelt, this paper explores synergies between notions of biological perception, cybernetic sensing and Harun Farocki’s concept of the operative image. Working from this conceptual framework, a technological notion of Umwelt is developed and applied in analysis of related computer science research and relevant artistic projects. The transdisciplinary approach applied in this investigation aims to frame artistic experimentation with algorithmic mediation of perception in reference to the technoscientific context these practices emerge from.

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            May 2018
            May 2018
            : 1-6
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            [1 ] IT-University of Copenhagen

            Rued Langgaards Vej 7

            Copenhagen, Denmark
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            10.14236/ewic/EVAC18.44
            684d2f5f-eb85-4afc-b730-9a2d6208f60c
            © Lee. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of EVA Copenhagen 2018, Denmark

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            Politics of the Machines - Art and After
            EVA Copenhagen
            7
            Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark
            15 - 17 May 2018
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Digital arts and culture
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Perception,Umwelt,Ecology,Cybernetics,Algorithms,Adversarial images,Biosemiotics,Digital art

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