Culture of the Selfie is an in-depth art-historical overview of self-portraiture, using a set of theories from visual studies, narratology, media studies, psychotherapy, and political principles. Collecting information from various fields, juxtaposing them on the historical time-line of artworks, the book focuses on space in self-portraits, shared between the person self-portraying and the viewer. What is the missing information of the transparent relationship to the self and what kind of world appears behind each selfie? As the ‘world behind one’s back’ is gradually taking larger place in the visual field, the book dwells on a capacity of selfies to master reality, the inter-mediate way and, in a measure, oneself.
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Studying images in social media poses specific methodological challenges, which in turn have directed scholarly attention towards the computational interpretation of visual data. When analyzing large numbers of images, both traditional content analysis as well as cultural analytics have proven valuable. However, these techniques do not take into account the circulation and contextualization of images within a socio-technical environment. As the meaning of social media images is co-created by networked publics, bound through networked practices, these visuals should be analyzed on the level of their networked contextualization. Although machine vision is increasingly adept at recognizing faces and features, its performance in grasping the meaning of social media images is limited. However, combining automated analyses of images - broken down by their compositional elements - with repurposing platform data opens up the possibility to study images in the context of their resonance within and across online discursive spaces. This paper explores the capacities of platform data - hashtag modularity and retweet counts - to complement the automated assessment of social media images; doing justice to both the visual elements of an image and the contextual elements encoded by networked publics that co-create meaning.
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In an image-saturated society, methods for visual analysis gain urgency. This special issue explores visual ways to study online images, focusing on their collection and circulation. The proposition we make is to stay as close to the material as possible. How to approach the visual with the visual? What type of images may one design to make sense of, reshape, and reanimate online image collections? How may arrangements of online images promote various analytical procedures, participatory actions, and design interventions? Furthermore, we focus on the role that algorithmic tools, including machine vision, can play in such research efforts while being sensitive to their flaws and shortcomings. Which kinds of collaborations between humans and machines can we envision to better grasp and critically interrogate the dynamics of today’s digital visual culture? The different practices and formats discussed in this special issue (including data feminism, visual scores, machine vision, image networks, field guides) offer a range of approaches that seek to understand, reanimate, and change perspectives on our digital visual culture.
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The main aim of the project is to provide new research in the arts by focusing on the concept of the inter-sensorial as an essential text for the creation of art and culture. It is designed to foreground the role of the sensorium as an underpinning source for many aspects of thought and cultural heritage. This project will blend visual arts with applied arts and traditional local traditions, revealing new light on the artistic facets and customs which are usually overlooked.The extended residencies will promote transnational mobility for emerging artists, facilitating international relationships between different artistic and cultural contexts within the EU. This will promote transnational interconnectivity between artists and cultures, creating a resourceful intercultural fertilisation, endorsing cultural diversity, social inclusion and most of all, further research on the intercultural facets.Through the various side-activities to take place during the mobilities of the artists, the project aims to strengthen and develop diverse audiences by producing the necessary elements for a dialogue, illustrating interpretations of rich layers of tangible and intangible heritage and legacies of European countries related to the tradition of sensorial experiences and how they evolved around traditional customs. Furthermore, it also aims to rethink and project new and innovative ways for documenting, preserving and communicating data to different audiences.
The utilization of drones in various industries, such as agriculture, infrastructure inspection, and surveillance, has significantly increased in recent years. However, navigating low-altitude environments poses a challenge due to potential collisions with “unseen” obstacles like power lines and poles, leading to safety concerns and equipment damage. Traditional obstacle avoidance systems often struggle with detecting thin and transparent obstacles, making them ill-suited for scenarios involving power lines, which are essential yet difficult to perceive visually. Together with partners that are active in logistics and safety and security domains, this project proposal aims at conducting feasibility study on advanced obstacle detection and avoidance system for low-flying drones. To that end, the main research question is, “How can AI-enabled, robust and module invisible obstacle avoidance technology can be developed for low-flying drones? During this feasibility study, cutting-edge sensor technologies, such as LiDAR, radar, camera and advanced machine learning algorithms will be investigated to what extent they can be used be to accurately detect “Not easily seen” obstacles in real-time. The successful conclusion of this project will lead to a bigger project that aims to contribute to the advancement of drone safety and operational capabilities in low-altitude environments, opening new possibilities for applications in industries where low-flying drones and obstacle avoidance are critical.
Met toepassing van ICT-innovaties in combinatie met real-time 5D Big Data verstevigt de creatieve industrie haar innovatiekracht. Hiermee genereert zij impact bij het oplossen van maatschappelijke vraagstukken, die aansluiten bij de Duurzame Ontwikkelingsdoelstellingen van de Verenigde Naties. Vanuit haar meerjarige relatie met de creatieve industrie, wordt aan HAS Hogeschool steeds vaker de vraag gesteld hoe de creatieve professional op een ethisch verantwoorde manier om kan, wil en mag gaan met de toepassing van persoonsgebonden locatiedata in het designproces tot en met publicatie van digitale inter¬actieve applicaties met ruimtelijke visualisaties (animaties, video’s, digital twins, etc.). Ook participerende gebruikers worden steeds mondiger en stellen terecht vragen over het gebruik van persoonsgebonden locatiedata in dergelijke applicaties. De Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens houdt in deze toezicht en legt de komende jaren nadruk op dit focusgebied. Vanuit het maatschappelijk actuele sociaal en culturele thema Data & Ethiek wordt momenteel (inter-)nationaal onderzoek uitgevoerd en zijn een aantal instrumenten ontwikkeld. Deze zijn echter niet praktijkgericht en visueel, terwijl de creatieve industrie en de maatschappij daar wel steeds meer om vragen. Met de ontwikkeling en eerste toepassing van het praktijkinstrument Monitor Ethisch Ruimtelijk Visualiseren en brede kennis¬valorisatie met de creatieve industrie wordt een goede eerste stap gezet om deze behoefte in te vullen. Tevens worden de onderzoeksresultaten door HAS Hogeschool vertaald naar haar kerntaken (onderwijs, onderzoek en kennistransfer) en richting haar Ethische Adviescommissie. De resultaten van dit praktijkgericht onderzoek met een multidisciplinaire aanpak maken brede toepassing van technologie in maatschappelijk gedragen en ethisch geaccepteerde oplossingen mogelijk, geeft een impuls aan het vernieuwend onderwijs bij HAS Hogeschool en andere kennisinstituten en biedt het MKB in de creatieve industrie de innovatiekracht haar producten nu en in de toekomst meer ethisch-bewust aan de markt en haar gebruikers aan te bieden.
