Mapping the Imagination
Mapping the Imagination by Jiyeon Kang A Visual Practice of Redacting Human Imagination from Texts with Photo Data When you read a book that is full of imagery words, What’s going on inside your mind? What images do you have in your head when you reading? It must be varied from each individual depending on everyone’s life experience and views toward to the reality how you shape the world. I visualized sensory, perceptive words in the first chapter of Marcel Proust’s masterpiece, “Swan’s Way - In Search of Lost Time.” Visual search is one of those technologies we know is set to impact the future of shopping significantly, we’re just not quite there yet. Deep learning will impact too – this concept is all about a vision system that remembers what it sees. In particular, a system that can automatically categorize and auto tag images by leveraging memory and using a probability engine. Through this visual practice of redaction, I wanted to illuminate the fact that human cognitive system and imagination is still a rich source of information. Many studies in Maching learning and Artificial Intelligence are trying to extract visual classifiers from the human visual system. There is a field of Artificial imagination (AIm), also called Synthetic imagination or machine imagination which is defined as artificial simulation of human imagination by general or special purpose computers or artificial neural networks. The computer, increasingly displaying what seem to be human capabilities, re-emphasizes the emotional dimension of human imagination. Associated with the power of imagination, once the sole preserve of humans, the computer is triggering a re-evaluation of what is means to be human. So in my opinion, even though the computer can recognize text and match with the photo quickly, there is still a room for human imagination that affects the choice in visual search. Through this visual practice, I wanted to illuminate the fact that human visual system and imagination is still a rich source of information. And modern surveillance system cannot invade a person’s mental privacy yet because the cognitive processes of individuals are based on each person’s unique experience in the life and creative imagination even though the artificial intelligence like Google “Alphago” are evolving and even developing the creative process on its own. Surveillance Design Class 2016 Parsons School of Design
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Jiyeon Kang kangj338@newschool.edu jiyeonk.com