User:Alexander Roidl/bookscanning

transformative processes

• transforming knowledge
• creating new file
• creating new »content«
• new possibilities of processing (OCR, analysis…)
• revealing information layers (printing technique)
• turning an analog medium into a digital file
  • change of object, color, pages, reading flow
  • Kantian model of the book (object, that’s sellable & knowledge)
  • Chartier
• display is changing

• reproducing the reproduced (Walter Benjamin -> next level)

scanning as a tool

• creating graphics / visuals out of scanned pages

-> draw an image from a scanned book pages -> AI? drawing images / abstract / concrete / emotion

• missuse -> new unexpected results

big data

• generating new data

(endless data generation)

• what data is selected?
• how to find sth. in that data (analysis)?
• FILTERS

bubbles

• we live within a given framework
• selection of texts leads to an opinion
• filter
• idea: chatbot trained only from scanned book pages
• sherry turkle?

light-sensitive color

• print with light-sensitive color

-> see nothing / image when scanned or -> see the text when scanned, but it disappears after scanning

More

Access to…

• digitale books
• analog books
• who has access / who hasn't and why?
• how easy is access (com. digital / analog)

Adding/Deleting/Altering information of existing books

• (piracy - connected to anonymous )

Feminist Methodologies

How digitization is changing the view on sexism/feminism

• books become searchable and more connected
• quantitative method (counting women vs. counting men)

Feedback

• scanned material to train an algorithm > a chatbot trained on the books that are scanned > ref to Google Books (and to failed twitterbot)
  • always limited resources as input
• What happens if you train this chat bot on a book, not on social media material

Connecting to the reader

• What is lost, what is gained by scanning
• forensic materiality to more performative materiality

• "Not enough data" as a mantra to promise that the algorithm gets better
• The scanner as a mediator to use other types of data

> fembot https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/04/arts/fembot-poppy-lil-miquela-kylie-jenner.html

http://soulellis.com/ book on chatbots by artists and designers

Enron company, the Enron dataset https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~enron/ datasets that are used often also shape the language, a standardized way to assess 'natural' language leaked data used for machine learning Sam Lavigne and Tega Brain: The Good Life https://www.newmuseum.org/calendar/view/1258/the-making-of-natural-language (there is also a video recording of the event)

http://publicdomainday.constantvzw.org/ the death of the author The Bot Opera http://video.constantvzw.org/PublicDomainDay2015/NEWNOVA.webm 2015 edition: http://publicdomainday.constantvzw.org/#1943

Train chatbot on dataset -> extremist references -> introduction on

the database / data-usage

how does the data influence the algorithm?

where data for algorithms is coming from -> books / internet -> training AI

how is the data being selected?

-> you can not see the data in the background

-> you do not know what Google uses its data for

Feedback

• Protocol by Alexander Gallaway (how interface is organized)
• Software takes command (serve interests of several groups)
• Sorting Things Out
• Literacy and its consequences

Related Texts

Sorted by importance

• Lev Manovich – The database
• http://adanewmedia.org/blog/2015/11/01/issue8-masters/
• http://adanewmedia.org/blog/2016/05/01/issue9-hoffmann-and-bloom/
• webs of feminist knowledge
• https://www.wired.com/2010/02/ff_google_algorithm/

Sources

The Mass Digitization of Books: http://www.kcoyle.net/jal-32-6.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Chartier

Discussion on Googles Book Scanning http://www.firstmonday.org/article/view/2101/2037

NYT article on Google’s bookscanning & bookscanning in general http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/magazine/14publishing.html

(Video) What is a book by Roger Chartier http://mediasitemob1.mediagroup.ubc.ca/Mediasite/Play/b7ff39a973534d4c9583fcd935ee2c581d

Article on Roger Chartier and the past & Future of books http://www.booksandideas.net/The-Book-Its-Past-Its-Future.html

Data selection of AI bots https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/sam-lavigne-and-tega-brain-the-good-life

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~enron/

Fembot https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/04/arts/fembot-poppy-lil-miquela-kylie-jenner.html