外包平台上的AI——鬼影剪輯：許多黑盒中的清晰像素

Aarti Sunder《鬼影剪輯：許多黑盒中的清晰像素
(Ghost Cut: Some Clear Pixels Amongst Many Black Boxes)》
單頻道錄像、Riso印刷文件(Single-channel video, Riso printed documents)／尺寸依場地而定(Dimension Variable)／2021

作品介紹

影片取材自藝術家與Amazon的Mturk平台上派遣工作者間的真實對話，揭露了他們與Mechanical Turk平台所面對的複雜政治關係，從而反映出平台在不同狀況下的透明性與隱晦性。影片特別關注於AI和機器學習背後的核心過程，勾勒出模擬、數位技術與真實世界之間微妙的互動與聯繫。當我們追求自動化運作的完美流程，背後所需的一切努力和策略又是如何？這些看似微不足道但實為核心的工作是由誰負責、在哪進行，又具備了何種特質？本片巧妙地利用工作者在線上平台上所受的訓練流程，展示在不同情境下如何進行反覆的調適。其中，語言的精確運用，尤其是清楚的英語表達，被凸顯為關鍵要素。此外，影片進一步探討資料整合、分析和標注的主觀過程，以及其所倚賴的實體基礎。在一個缺乏明確參考和標準的數位世界中，抽象成為一個重要且被迫使用的工具。

This film draws from conversations with Amazon Mturk workers and their relationship with the politics of the Mechanical Turk platform – the varying forms of transparency and opacities that make the platform what it is. Focusing on the backend of AI and machine learning processes, the film investigates the relationships between the analogic, the digital, and the terrestrial. What kind of work is required for the smooth functioning of automation? Who does this backend work, where does it take place, and what does it entail? Using the processes that workers help train on online platforms as material, recursions of different scales take place, where we see language, the ability to define and speak clear English as central. A second focus is exploring the subjective nature of data gathering, processing and annotating, and the material infrastructures it is dependent on. In the absence of any fixed constants, context or averages, abstraction emerges as an important and forced tool.

藝術家介紹

Aarti Sunder居住並工作於印度，畢業於麻省理工藝術、文化與科技碩士。她主要用影像、寫作和繪圖作為創作媒介。她的興趣在於科技政治，專注於基礎設施的研究——從當代勞動實踐、抗議的虛構邊緣、神話，以及數位——球遊戲到廣泛的平台政治。Aarti曾在Akademie der Kunst、Hayy Jameel、2022新加坡雙年展、Haus der Kulturen der Welt、MIT、Warehouse421、Goethe-Institute、Kunstverein Leipzig、Bauhaus Imaginista、ISCP和Yugoslav History博物館等地展出她的作品。她曾獲得MIT、Sommerakademie Paul Klee、Ashkal Alwan、Harvard FSC Film Center、Sarai和Khoj的獎學金和獎助。

Aarti Sunder is an artist living and working in India. She primarily works with video, writing, and drawing. Her interest lies within techno-politics, focusing on the study of infrastructure – from contemporary labour practices, fictional edges of protest, myth, and digital-terrestrial play to expanded platform politics. Aarti has exhibited her work at the Akademie der Kunst, Hayy Jameel, Singapore Biennale 22, 1ShanthiRoad Studio Gallery, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, MIT, Warehouse421, Goethe- Institute, Kunstverein Leipzig, Bauhaus Imaginista, Alserkal Avenue, ISCP and the Museum of Yugoslav History amongst other spaces. She has received grants and fellowships from MIT, Sommerakademie Paul Klee, Ashkal Alwan, Harvard FSC Film Center, Sarai, and Khoj.

更多藝術家資訊：https://aartisunder.com/

展出日期｜2023.09.01 – 2023.09.06
展出地點｜臺灣當代文化實驗廣場 C-LAB
攝影紀錄｜張耀翔

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