"Feeding the statue"

Something that I didn't predict was that my compost would compost, even without the lack of equal green rotten parts to dry parts. So I've had to add more to the statue over time. Today I took a time lapse video of me adding additional cardboard and eggs.

Female representation of physical AI and disembodiment in Pop Culture

Film & TV list-
The Jestons - Rosey
Ex Machina - Ava
Her - Samantha
Wall-e - Eva
Halo - Cortana
Matrix - Female Character?
Blade Runner -
Metropolis - Maria
Weird Science
Terminator: Sara Connor Chronicles
Austin Powers - FemBots


Book - Virtual Girl

This article was super helpful in giving me a place to start.

http://io9.com/from-maria-to-ava-why-are-so-many-artificial-intellige-1699274487?trending_test_e&utm_expid=66866090-62.H_y_0o51QhmMY_tue7bevQ.5&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

Final elements ready to instal

David finding microorganisms from our compost

My Display descriptions & instructions. mounted on foam board

Empty box, I wrapped it in saran wrap to keep it from getting scratched until sunday night.

Right before the leaves

Full

egg shells

feathers

leaves

soil

work in progress photos

Show Title

I've been working on ideas for our show title. This is not my strong suit so if you have had any ideas feel free to pass them along.

Title ideas:
Phases - I think most of our work could be represented by this singular concept.

M/M/M - would stand for  ms./miss/mrs. because we are a group of all female artists.

these are the two best ideas I have come up with and the send one isn't super strong. We need to pick a title so Savannah and I have time to come up with a design.

Thoughts on what i have so far?

Sara

Response to Shephard & Gates

Shephard, M. (2013). Minor Urbanism: Everyday entanglements of technology and urban life. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 27(4), 483-494.


This article covers ways that artists are using "technology" or commenting on the use of technology. 

technicity - the productive power of technology to make things happen
transduction - the constant making of a new domain in reiterative and transformative practices

"practicing minor urbanism involves reconfiguring, recircuiting and redirecting these normative systems and infrastructures in ways that open them up alternate social and political dynamics."
"Also indicates trend towards increasingly mobile actors and the role of technologies of convince as an indicator of contemporary culture."


I really enjoyed the Corner Convenience work. The video and the book are both good works that push us to think about things in different ways. 


Gates, K. (2004). The Past Perfect Promise of Facial Recognition Technology (pp. 1-16). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Kelly Gates Paper is about the use of Facial Recognition software, and particularly looking at it in a post 9/11 world. 

technostalgic - Thinking something would have happened differently if a technology we have currently existed in the past. 

"Other questions that are considered relevant to development of automated recognition concern how children recognize faces, what role facial expressions play in recognition, the role of race and gender, and our ability to recognize faces in ages of varying quality." - 8
"Computerized forms of bodily identification are in many ways consistent with these earlier state efforts, and similarly tied to cultural preoccupations with constructing the limits and possibilities of the nation-state." - 5

Something that this article made me think of was a TED talk about how screens will be able to read our emotions.

Microbes Video