Talk for a workshop on intimate surveillance.

1. MACHINE
VISION
How
do
our
devices
see
us?
Professor
Jill
Walker
Re?berg
University
of
Bergen
!
Tracking
Culture,
Aarhus.
January
7,
2015

4. My walk
from school
to ballet with
Jessie (6) as
seen by the
Narrative
Clip

5. Richard Serra with Nancy Holt: Boomerang. 1974.

6. Tim Barker
The present is
continually delayed,
given the same material
existence as the past
so it can become signal
for the computer that is
indistinguishable from
the signal the computer
receives from the
archived data.
Talk at Le sujet digital 3,
13 Nov 2014

10. When we take a
selfie on a phone
with a front-facing
screen and
camera we
simultaneously
see ourselves
and record
ourselves.
(http://www.makingselfiesmakingself.com)
Katie Warfield

11. trixietracker.com

12. Sunday at home with the kids.
Monday at work.
Tuesday - walked to work, used
standing desk, more aware of not
just sitting still.
Fitbit
as
diary

14. Chronos: Find your
time. See how you are
spending your time
without lifting a
finger. chronos runs in
the background on
your phone and
automatically captures
every moment.

15. We bring up our children to
expect detailed tracking
http://youtub.blogg.no/1253879937_anmerkninger_ordfrern.html

16. Når en professor slutter ved det humanistiske fakultet ved
UiB er det et excelark som bestemmer hvilket fagområde
den ledige stillingen skal utlyses i.(Bemanningsplanen er tatt fra sakspapirene til fakultetsstyremøtet i nov 2013)

17. “Numerical narratives”
— Roberto Simanowski in his
keynote to Remediating the
Social, Edinburgh 2012.

18. Vi bruker også
litterære former
for å organisere
våre egne
historier

19. 709. Hard winter. Duke Gottfried died.
710. Hard winter and deficient in crops.
711.
712. Flood everywhere.
713.
714. Pippin, mayor of the palace, died.
715.
716.
717.
718. Charles devestated the Saxons with great destruction.
719.
720. Charles fought against the Saxons.
721. Theudo drove the Saracens out of Aquitaine.
722. Great crops.
723.
724.
725. Saracens came for the first time.
The Annals of St Gall

20. Three modes of self-representation:
Written
Diary: (CC) Ellen Thompson http://www.flickr.com/photos/eethompson/2142754337
Selfie: (CC) TempusVolut http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrmorodo/11230014075
Nicholas Fultron:The Fultron Annual Report, 2007. http://feltron.com/ar07_01.html
Visual
Quantitative

21. To photograph is to appropriate
the thing photographed. It
means putting oneself into a
certain relation to the world that
feels like knowledge—and,
therefore, like power.
Susan Sontag: On Photography (1977)
Image (c) Chris Felver http://www.chrisfelver.com/portraits/writers2.html

22. Susan Sontag: On Photography (1977)
Image (c) Chris Felver http://www.chrisfelver.com/portraits/writers2.html
“Photographed images do not
seem to be statements about the
world so much as pieces of it,
miniatures of reality that anyone
can make or acquire.”

23. Image: (CC) Greg Peverill-Conti
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gregpc/8709429483
Dataism is a widespread belief
in the objective quantification and
potential tracking of all kinds of
human behavior and sociality
through online media technologies.
José van Dijck
Professor of Media Studies
University of Amsterdam

24. Johanna Drucker on subjective visualisations.

25. Marwick, Status Update, page 12.
In the early twentieth century, the technology of public schooling was designed
to regulate children to work in factories: children were trained to respond to
bells, walk in lines, and perform repetitive tasks. (..) Web 2.0 technologies
function similarly, teaching their users to be good corporate citizens in the
postindustrial, post-union world by harnessing marketing techniques to boost
attention and visibility.

26. In the graphopticon
the social graph
combines with the
omniopticon to create
the potential of being
audited all the time.
“What Do Metrics Want?” Computational
Culture 2014 (4)
Ben Grosser

29. Miles Hochstein: A Documented Life
http://www.documentedlife.com

31. Noah Kalina, 2006:

32. http://www.everyday.noahkalina.com/

33. Eleanor Antin: Carving, 1972.

34. Tehching
Hsieh,
1980-1981
Thanks to Mark
Jeffery for telling me
about this.( )

35. Dailybooth.com

37. Aligning yourself to the machine-readable face
Everyday app:

38. Google Photosphere tries to edit humans out.

39. There are no digital natives but the
devices themselves; no digital
immigrants but the devices too. They
are a diaspora, tentatively reaching out
into the world to understand it and
themselves, and across the network to
find and touch one another. This
mapping is a byproduct, part of the
process by which any of us, separate
and indistinct so long, find a place in
the world.
http://booktwo.org/notebook/where-the-f-k-was-i/
James Bridle
Machine vision - new aesthetics

40. read more: jilltxt.net / @jilltxt