A shadow of a man in the mirror / Christopher Hamamoto, Federico Pérez Villoro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamamoto, Christopher, book artist.

Contributor:

Pérez Villoro, Federico, 1987- book artist.

Gato Negro Ediciones, publisher.

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Artists' books--Mexico--Specimens.

Artists' books.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Edition:

Primera edicion.

Place of Publication:

[Mexico City, Mexico] : Gato Negro, [2024].

Language Note:

In Spanish.

Summary:

Chris Hamamoto and Federico Pérez Villoro's work investigates the impact of emerging technologies in contemporary culture and politics. It often includes computer-based media, publications, video, writing and educational initiatives. They have been working collaboratively since 2015. "A Shadow of a Man in the Mirror" presents stills taken from the 1934 experimental film Hands captioned with "subtitles" created using image-to-text software. The captioning program, NeuralTalk, is one of the first machine vision models designed to write sentences that describe images' contents rather than sim- ply identifying the objects present within them. This book exposes the limits of object recognition technologies; the inaccurate out- comes make explicit the unstable relation between images and what they are deemed to represent. An accidental poetry often arises from the erratic space of the machine. This book explores the transferability of meaning- or, rather, the impossibility thereof-between text and image, and the reproduction of bias-laden classifications in machine vision. The relatively recent ability for computers to segment and operationalize visuals as textual data has marked a major shift in image analysis. But in the cases illustrated here, its anthropo- centric mischaracterizations point to the limits of computer vision when confronted with information that falls outside of a specific worldview deter- mined by its training datasets. - Publisher.

Notes:

Cover title.

Risograph printed; date of publication found on publisher's website.

"Cover image is variable and may be different than what is pictured here." -- Printed Matter.

ISBN:

9786079977627

6079977621

OCLC:

1517560114