“Reinventing the Colonial Gaze Employing AI: a Case Study” presented by Koutsomichalis and Achilleos
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- ISEA2022: 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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- Digital Preservation: Resignifying Memory and Oblivion
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- Reinventing the Colonial Gaze Employing AI: a Case Study
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This short paper accounts for a case study of artistic research revolving around Cyprus’ colonial past and inspired by present day decolonial affairs. The endeavour pivots on a hybrid AI system, trained on text from colonial handbooks of Cyprus (originally published when Cyprus was still part of the British Empire) and employing a custom image dataset meant to reflect this colonial view of the island. AI then generates new colonial ‘gazes’ of Cyprus upon demand. Output text and imagery is used in a number of physical and digital artefacts and events that are presented herein.