Visual Culture
A sign that spells: Machinic concepts and the racial politics of generative AI
DALL-E Semantic compression Whiteness OpenAI Bias Visual cultureFabian Offert and Theo Phan investigate the paradox of semantic compression vis-à-vis OpenAI’s failed debiasing of DALL-E
AI en de regels van de kunst
Art Aesthetics Visual culture Cultural productionArif Kornweitz discusses generative AI in an art magazine
A Computational Approach to Hand Pose Recognition in Early Modern Paintings
Hand pose estimation Hand gestures Digital art history Digital humanities Visual cultureValentine Bernasconi, Eva Cetinić, and Leonardo Impett present a computational approach to hand pose recognition in paintings.
On the Concept of History (in Foundation Models)
History Foundation models Modelling Visual cultureFabian Offert interrogates models such as CLIP and DALL-E 2 for their concept of history
