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Frost Dream

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Description

Digital master created as part of the Synthetic Abstractions series (2018). Based on the classifiers in AI-driven online content filtering systems, Frost Dream appears as abstract to human audiences but as representational to machine vision systems. The image confronts human viewers with visual indeterminacy and provokes the question of how the human ability to interpret image content is impacted when what we see becomes subject to the increasing power of AI tools to filter, censor, or otherwise disrupt the circulation of visual information in the digital cultural realm. Google Vision API testing shows these abstract shapes are interpretable to online pornography filters - Frost Dream triggers the Google SafeSearch algorithm as "Adult" and "Racy." This image has also been flagged as "Explicit Nudity" by Amazon Web Services and "NSFW" by Yahoo OpenNSFW. Tom White (@dribnet) is a New Zealand–based visual artist who has been working at the intersection of AI and drawing systems for over 25 years. He studied computer graphics and visual design at MIT under Professor John Maeda and his early work on drawing frameworks contributed to influential software that remains widely used today, including Processing, openFrameworks, and p5.js. He is currently a lecturer in computational design and creative AI at the School of Design at Victoria University of Wellington.

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