Installation
“Eat this Scroll,” So I Opened My Mouth and He Caused Me to Eat that Scroll.
"By squashing competition and gathering the most data, and thus providing the most convenient user experience, monopoly platforms make it difficult for a user to switch to an alternative platform. A privacy-conscious user is met with the choice to... More
Mixed Media
A Smoking Gun/Encyclopedia of Firearms.
"The inclination to treat algorithms as conscious beings in lieu of discussing its creator(s) is, in itself, not neutral. It is not just a grammatical slip-up. Surveillance Capitalists, ...want us to think that their practices are inevitable... More
Drawing
And Then Just Keep Talking (Feeding)
"Facial recognition, handwriting analysis, and speech recognition have become standard services and tools across many devices...speech recognition is offered as an information-seeking aid in the form of digital assistants like Apple’s Siri or... More
Drawing
Anthropometrics
"Phones such as the Apple IPhone XS, Huawei Mate 20 Pro, and Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+ offer, “face unlock,” which provides a user access to their phone using facial recognition algorithms, and deny it to those other than the user, in place of a... More
Drawing
Bayes Theorem -> Naive Bayes
"The oldest method applied in uncertain reasoning is probability theory. Probabilistic reasoning concentrates basically on computing the posterior probability of the variables of interest given the available evidence. In medicine, for example, the... More
Mixed Media
Caught Between the Scylla and Charybdis
"“The Information Age,” and “digital revolution,” are two terms commonly used to describe the sophisticated technology that dominates our current epoch. Within a relatively short period of time, tools like cellular phones, tablets, and laptops have... More
Mixed Media
Civil Disobedience; Flare Stack/Prometheus
"There have been several attempts by up-and-coming companies, programmers, etc. to disrupt the hegemony of monopoly platforms. However, “When large incumbent players like Google or Uber enjoy the advantages of network effects, access to data, and... More
Drawing
Contemporary Techniques of Handwriting Recognition
"A number of handheld computers beginning with Apple's Newton in the mid-1990s and the once popular Palm devices and BlackBerry have some ability to recognize handwriting. However, current systems can be frustrating to use because accuracy often... More
Installation
ELIZA and PARRY
"The human brain’s muse-status for IS is evident in the development of neural networks. Neural networks are comprised of two subsections: biological neural networks and artificial neural networks. The former is a broad distinction that describes... More
Drawing
Epis(s)temology (McCulloch-Pitts)
"Speaking about the ultimate goal of his research, McCullough would state years later that he sought, “a satisfactory explanation for how we know what we know, stated in terms of physics and chemistry, the anatomy of the biological system”... More
Installation
Epistemological Study of Algorithms; Digital Episteme
"The forfeit of one’s privacy is part of the digital episteme’s social contract – the individual is given access to an unprecedented level of information, products, and connectivity in exchange for one’s data. However, the information, products and... More
Mixed Media
Fat Little Boy Man/ Sex Appeal
"Responsibility for the development and use of the first atomic bombs was diffuse. Einstein discovered the necessary theory. Hahn, Szilard, Lawrence, Oppenheimer, and many others made the necessary links between theory and implementation. Groves,... More
Installation
Fragments of Speech Recognition Algorithms Research
"Speech recognition begins with digitizing the speech sounds and converting them into a standard, compact representation. The analysis can be based on matching the input sounds to one of about 200 “spectral equivalence classes” from which the... More
Mixed Media
G(l)ory/Techno-Hubris
"Phones such as the Apple IPhone XS, Huawei Mate 20 Pro, and Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+ offer, “face unlock,” which provides a user access to their phone using facial recognition algorithms, and deny it to those other than the user, in place of a... More
Mixed Media
Human Element/ (Info-Seeking) Emotion -> Profit
"Failing to acknowledge the human element as a researcher or user, or the continued influence of factors external to the IS, ignores the type of data that is regarded as most valuable by companies like Google." Fiona Enright. 'Section IV, Part a'... More
Mixed Media
I.S.I.S. (Information Systems/Eternal Life)
"The human element - the users and servicers of IS - is an often overlooked aspect of IS. An IS may have a nearly perfect internal logic, but if it is not agreeable to the user in both use and output, it is not an effective system. This is... More
Mixed Media
If You Don’t Sound Like a Native Speaker, the Phone Will Not Recognize You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9spNwCCSBUU
Mixed Media
Information Logs; Canary in a Coal Mine
"The study of information behaviour is commonly regarded as the examination of information-seeking and information-retrieval behaviour. The former being the process through which one searches for information, utilizing digital and/or analogue... More
Drawing
Lingchi Lascaux
N8217 E6 B27 (https://ocad.ipac.sirsidynix.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=16Y8865O531R9.266&menu=search&aspect=subtab24&npp=10&ipp=20&spp=20&profile=otca&ri=16&source=%7E%21horizon&index=.TW&term=tears+of+eros&x=0&y=0&aspect=subtab24)
Mixed Media
Logocentrism/Centralist Ideology
"Derrida identifies logocentrism, and by extension phonocentrism, as one of the societal and philosophical challenges to be overcome through grammatology and deconstruction. Logocentrism, a term that predates both Of Grammatology and Derrida’s... More
Mixed Media
Long Short-Term Memory; Gate
"Generally used to mean artificial neural network (ANN). An ANN is a network of many very simple processors (units or neurons), each possibly having a (small amount of) local memory. The neurons are connected by unidirectional communication... More
Installation
LSTM; Handwriting Recognition
"A handwriting recognition system begins by building a representation of the user's writing. With a pen or stylus system, this representation is not simply a graphical image but includes the recorded “strokes” or discrete movements that make up the... More
Installation
Meditation on Contemporary and Historical Information Systems; Lessons from the Atomic Age.
"The forfeit of one’s privacy is part of the digital episteme’s social contract – the individual is given access to an unprecedented level of information, products, and connectivity in exchange for one’s data. However, the information, products and... More
Mixed Media
Parer(Bode)gon
"A drawing in a mathematics textbook is like a frame containing a painting. Each contextualizes a “subject,” signals the use or meaning of an object, and tells us how to consider it. A frame tells us that what it holds is art, and a mathematic... More
Mixed Media
Positions 1-3.
"By squashing competition and gathering the most data, and thus providing the most convenient user experience, monopoly platforms make it difficult for a user to switch to an alternative platform. A privacy-conscious user is met with the choice to... More
Mixed Media
Positions 4-6.
"The magic helper is nebulous; 'there is no definite image linked up with that power'(Erich Fromm Escape from Freedom 172). A country, institution, or powerful person can act as a magic helper. In the digital episteme, corporations like Google,... More
Drawing
Socially-Elected Search Results
"In the early days of Google, the company operated on what Zuboff calls a behavioural value reinvestment cycle: “(Google’s) User data provided value at no cost, and that value was reinvested in the user experience in the form of improved services:... More
Drawing
Spectre of Markov
"A statistical process in which the probability of an event, in a sequence of random events, is influenced by the outcome of the preceding event. Any system in which an outcome depends in part on the previous outcome may be described as exhibiting... More
Mixed Media
The Garden of Gethsemane (Mechanical/Digital Innocence)
"The existence and importance of algorithms is well-known, but how power is exerted via these sets of computational rules is under-acknowledged. Blaming algorithms for immoral happenings, or praising it for its virtue, is a common error in... More
Installation
The Human Element; Bayesian Sentiment Analysis
"The human element, the users and servicers of IS, is an often overlooked aspect of IS. An IS may have a nearly perfect internal logic, but if it is not agreeable to the user in both use and output, it is not an effective system. This is especially... More
Installation
The Martyrdom of Aaron Swartz; Civil Disobedience.
"The effects of this paradigm shift were not only felt in the realm of advertising, but also in the way we experience information-seeking overall. Whether initially intended to or not, introducing an explicit bias, like product promotion, into an... More
Drawing
The Master Algorithm
"The premise of the algorithm is this: “all knowledge – past, present, and future – can be derived from a single, universal learning algorithm” (Domingos, Pedro. The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our... More
Installation
The Master Algorithm; Impact Zone
"The corporations that dominate the digital episteme strive for increased centralization in their respective sectors by buying out competition or making it increasingly difficult to seek alternatives to their services. There are several potential... More
Drawing
Use of Hidden Markov Model in Speech Recognition
"A hidden Markov model is a statistical tool that is frequently used for modeling biological sequences. In applying it, a sequence is modeled as an output of a discrete stochastic process, which progresses through a series of states that are... More
Drawing
Марков Chain
"A sequence of symbols (or events) in which the next symbol is influenced only by the current symbol and not by any previous symbols in the sequence. The current state of the system provides all historical information relevant to the future... More
Installation
Марков Chain; Information Behaviour
"The study of information behaviour is commonly regarded as the examination of information-seeking and information-retrieval behaviour. The former being the process through which one searches for information, utilizing digital and/or analogue... More
Work by
Fiona Enright
Drawing, collage, sculpture
“Virtually every facet of academic, professional, and personal life in modern times is affected by or contained within algorithms. Algorithms, a set of rules that dictate the form and function of...” [More]