Francis Hunger

@databasecultures@dair-community.social
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Artist Webpagehttps://www.irmielin.org
Teaching at AdBKHTTPS://www.generativemedia.net
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6948-4256
Dissertation "Form of the Database"http://databasecultures.irmielin.org/about-database-cultures/
Show threadFrancis Hunger20h ago
@hagen just DM me your email, happy to send it
Francis Hunger1d ago
Tom Morris4d ago

Wikipedians on the front line of keeping AI nonsense from getting into articles have prepared a list of common catchphrases and signs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup/AI_catchphrases

Wikipedia:WikiProject AI Cleanup/AI catchphrases - Wikipedia

Francis Hunger1d ago
Andreas Möllenkamp1d ago
CfP für die 7. IASPM D-A-CH-Konferenz "Tuning the NOISE GATE. Politiken des Filterns, Selektierens und Verstärkens in populärer Musik" in Oldenburg vom 28-30.05.2026: https://www.iaspm-dach.net/blog/2025/6/21/cfp-7-iaspm-d-a-ch-konferenz-tuning-the-noise-gate-politiken-des-filterns-selektierens-und-verstrkens-in-populrer-musik-oldenburg-28-30052026-deadline-15082025
CfP: 7. IASPM D-A-CH-Konferenz: "Tuning the NOISE GATE. Politiken des Filterns, Selektierens und Verstärkens in populärer Musik" (Oldenburg, 28-30.05.2026) Deadline: 15.08.2025 — IASPM D-A-CH

Call for Papers 7. Konferenz IASPM – D-A-CH Tuning the NOISE GATE Politiken des Filterns, Selektierens und Verstärkens in populärer Musik Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg 28. - 30. Mai 2026 Deadline: 15.08.2025 Call for Papers [ PDF ] ( english version here ) (Die Verlinkungen im C

IASPM D-A-CH
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@kappazeta I send an email
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Article is paywalled, if you don't have access, ask me.

https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/article-abstract/doi/10.1215/2834703X-11556056/

Show threadFrancis Hunger1d ago
This article expands on how using anthropomorphizing metaphors enables pseudoscientifc approaches such as phrenology and physiognomy. Consequentially the thinkpiece suggests a more self-reflective language around “AI” and de-anthropomorphized notions and concepts such as “weights” or “nodes” instead of “neurons"
Show threadFrancis Hunger1d ago
The exaggeration of the technological capacity to produce human-level intelligence relies heavily on unsubstantiated metaphors that involve anthropomorphization. This discourse analysis builds on John Fiske's concept of technostruggles, whereby technoscienti[c discourse exercises power by producing “a particular form of social knowledge.”
Francis Hunger1d ago

My text "Pause Giant Anthropomorphizing Metaphors" published in the Critical AI Journal

"The reemergence of pseudoscienti[c discourses around 'AI' suggests using a terminology that combats retrograde biological essentialism. By conflating nodes within virtual software architectures, so-called convolutional neural networks, with biological neurons some computer scientists have fueled a surge of 'AI' hype playing into the narrative that human-like artifcial general intelligence (AGI) is near."

Francis Hunger1d ago
Robert Heinze1d ago

Slightly obscure question for a colleague: can anyone recommend literature on Benjamin's flaneurism as a research method (especially historically)? (The question is whether ambiance and atmospheres can be described historically)

@histodons @historikerinnen

Francis Hunger1d ago
Bruce Sterling @bruces1d ago
*Character problems with LLM agents /chatbots as "workers" and "copilots"
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Joost RekveldJun 23

Super happy to finally hold a physical copy of my book. It will be out and available after the summer, please contact me if you are interested to review it or to organize an event around it.

#LiberateTheMachines! #DialoguesWithMachines #SystemsThatMatter #MediaArchaeology #AnalogComputing #ExperimentalCinema #MechanismsCommonToDisparatePhenomena

copublished with KASK&Conservatorium Ghent, designed by Isabelle Vigier, final editing by Bureau Doove.

Show threadJonasJun 23
@joost_rekveld
Love tje cover! Sorry for the daft question but what is it about?
Show threadJoost RekveldJun 23

Great question @magnetic_tape !

For the time being I can offer the flaptext as a partial response:

Show threadJoost RekveldJun 23
@magnetic_tape "This publication came out of the artistic research project Dialogues With Machines and narrates Joost Rekveld’s personal experience of such a dialogue while making the experimental film Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59. During this process the dialogue changed, the notion of learning from machines changed, and Rekveld’s views on technology, mathematics, and media archaeology were also transformed as a result."
Show threadJoost RekveldJun 23

@magnetic_tape

“Our technical milieu is a collective product, a long-term external memory to which each generation contributes. We cannot act or think without it, and the design and development of our technology is therefore a form of politics that shapes our life-world, our planet and ourselves.

Show threadJoost RekveldJun 23

@magnetic_tape

... During this project, media archaeology became an approach to investigating this collective construction. Conversely, it led to an understanding of films, installations, talks, and writings as small gestures that may contribute to shaping it.”

Show threadJonasJun 23
@joost_rekveld
Thanks! Would the film be available to watch somewhere online by any chance?