{"id":11789,"date":"2019-07-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/big-dada\/"},"modified":"2020-09-29T13:19:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T11:19:16","slug":"big-dada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/big-dada\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Dada"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"project":[451,506,459],"project_type":[725,734],"class_list":["post-11789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","project-web-residencies","project-calls-2019","project-rigged-systems","project_type-formats","project_type-shortlist"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Text","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"Twenty five years ago, AT&T\u2019s prescient 1993 ad campaign entitled \u203aYOU WILL\u2039 played a key part in launching the field of computational propaganda via the world\u2019s first \u203apay per click\u2039 (PPC) digital ad banner.\r\n\r\n25 years on, ad platforms, web publishers, and other intermediaries have developed an infrastructure of data collection, surveillance and targeting capacities that scholars refer to as the Digital Influence Machine (DIM).\r\n\r\nTo expose &amp; interrogate these opaque architectures, myself and fellow artist Daniel Howe set out to detourne (hijack) the DIM on June 10th, 2019 as we inserted 6 AI generated \u203adeep fake\u2039 artworks of celebrity \u203aInfluencers\u2039 into social media networks. Our aim was to explore the tensions that exist concerning privacy, computational propagandas, technology and democracy. These formed part of an installation entitled \u203aSpectre\u2039 (http:\/\/billposters.ch\/projects\/spectre\/).<\/a>\r\n\r\nBy applying detournement theory and using AI to hack the power of celebrity \u203aInfluencers,\u2039 our Dada-esque simulation reached dizzying heights as the artworks quickly became embroiled in a global conversation about the power of computational forms of \u203adeep fake\u2039 propaganda after they went viral on social media. This created a situation of global press coverage and official responses from Facebook, Instagram and Youtube.\r\n\r\nSocial media surfaces became a performance space for our AI generated critical artworks as they trolled the largest tech giant on earth \u2013 Facebook. Forcing them to question their global policies regarding computational forms of propaganda and the \u203afact checking\u2039 of critical public art on their platforms.\r\n\r\nBy combining AI and machine learning technologies with critical art theory we feel we have exposed interesting territory for the development of theory concerning the Digital Influence Machine and network-based, new media works.\r\n\r\nWe would like to consolidate our work in this area during the web residency in order to:\r\n\r\n1 \u2013 Compile and refine a new series of digital works centred on our \u203aBig Dada\u2039 intervention and associated documentation we have collated.\r\n\r\n2 \u2013 1 x short essay (1500 words) that consolidates our reflections of our initial \u203aBig Dada\u2039 intervention and the broader, neocolonial logics of surveillance capitalism and Dataism that the Spectre project interrogates.\r\n\r\n3 \u2013 1 x Academic paper for publication that develops and consolidates our artistic and critical theory in relation to \u203aBig Dada\u2039 and data as readymade and assemblage."}],"intro_preview_headline":"Bill Posters \/ Manchester, UK","intro_preview_txt":"","intro_preview_img":11790,"post_id_old":"34161","post_author":"","post_subtitle":"Bill Posters \/ Manchester, UK","post_preview_img_hide_on_single":false,"post_txt_old":"","post_pdf":null,"post_copyright":"ccl_default","translated_post":false,"translations":null,"post_copyright_individual":"","post_related_posts":[11812,11777,22650],"related_posts_post":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11789\/revisions"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11777"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project?post=11789"},{"taxonomy":"project_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_type?post=11789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}