Abby Lim [Software Studies]

This Device Sniffs Out Pollution And Turns It Into Digital Art “Digioxide” by :vtol: is a device which captures and produces a “snapshot” of dust and gas pollution and turns it into physical, digitized images. This project aimed to display pollution into something tangible and visual, to help raise awareness for the environment through an […]

The constant reassurance that arises in many of the readings posits that by no means is the progression of creative AI going to replace artists but instead aid them in creations of art. A mutually beneficial partnership between the artist and the creative AI system, a new form of extension of the artist’s agency through […]

People strive for the creation of an ethically correct AI despite our inability to truly embody what it means to be ethically correct. Are we then able to create AI with ethically correct foundations? There might not be a perfect solution to address this issue but Nilani has taken steps to introduce and establish definitions […]

If AI will inevitably assimilate into deep sociological structures of society, how will it be able to fare well in social media- a more informal setting within the digital realm? So far, the largest breakthrough in computer vision within the field of object recognition is the discovery of machine learning patterns and how it presents […]

Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence; Paths, Dangers, Strategies &Portrayals and perceptions of AI and why they matter, The Royal Society Bostrom starts off his book with The Unfinished Fable of the Sparrows, in which he attempts to introduce how the pursuit of a more intelligent and capable being- in the story’s case, the owl. The pursuit to […]

Rhetoric (in The Software Arts) – Warren Sack Rhetoric, on the other hand, is a form of argumentation pursued infant go large crowds peoples by many who know nothing about the topic and who are apathetic if not antagonistic.  In the reading Sacks want to tackle “How does the Ancient Greek demonstration become the Silicon […]

Language wants to be overlooked – Alexander Galloway In Galloway’s writing his perspective contrasts with Chun’s claim that ‘software is a functional analog to ideology’ which entails the ‘ideology’ of abstract concepts a user understands between the relationship of code and interface. The example Chun utilises is the users understanding of folders and desktops. At face […]

There is no software – Friedrich Kittler  This reading delves into the concept that Software only exists in the plane of our existence due to our use of language itself. In the previous reading by Finn, ‘languages’ are symbolic and abstract systems of communication that makes up the foundation of code used to create softwares. […]