This line of work stems from my participation in Better Images of AI x AIxDESIGN x AI4Media Community gallery, that leads to my interest on developing a practice and a methods of teaching around creating better visual communication of AI through exploration of alternative narratives through GLAM archives.
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Deepfakes are doubling online every six months. Researchers predict there’ll be over 5.2 million in 2024. 90% are non-consensual porn of women. Across most of the globe there are no laws against deepfake pornography. There are 3000+ websites dedicated to intimate image abuse that have been allowed to thrive. -- anotherbodyfilm.com
I could not stop thinking about this documentary on deepfake porn called Another body by Sophie Tara Compton and Reuben Hamlyn and so when I thought about what would I visualize for the Community Gallery of AIxDESIGN this popped in mind. Community gallery is one of the streams of our current collaboration with Better Images of AI funded by AI4Media. I could not resist to try to create my own better image of AI. Even when I try to describe to other people what is AIxDESIGN actually doing, I usually end up talking about current projects like this one. Where we try to engage our community into critical making processes, in this case - producing stock images to illustrate what AI is rather that what it isn't while not perpetuating harmful stereotypes and fearmongering. So I wanted to enjoy the process myself 😝
Sooo what I did? Tapped into the visual language that I use and understand (been in the world of art galleries for quite some time), I decided to use open access artworks from webumenia.sk, which is web of arts from galleries in Slovakia, because I have a thing for hyper local references. The idea was to pick aristocratic or saint ladies and use their faces on artistic nudes, that are somehow normalized in our society.
In 1989, Guerrilla Girls reported that less than 5% of the works in the modern art section at New York’s The Metropolitan Museum of Art were created by female artists, but 85 percent of the nudes on display featured women. Twenty-three years later the group went back and did a recount, but found the numbers had barely changed.
<aside> 🚧 Will deepfake ever be normalized too? Hopefully not. Anyway, I still think that even pre-internet women of 19th century would not fancy such swaps. What do you think?
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