11.06.2022
Santa Mònica, Barcelona
Event link TBA

As part of the Anatomies of Intelligence presence at ISEA2022’s main exhibition, Joana Chicau and Jonathan Chaim Reus lead a workshop exploring connections between early Enlightenment anatomical science, classification and collection and contemporary practices in data collection and statistical machine learning. They lead the participants through embodiment and inner-movement practices taken from dance, and guide them through exercises which connect their own sense of body and internal orientations to the high-dimensional spaces and complex topologies of feature vectors within machine learning.

The workshop culminates with an experiment on embodying the widely used unsupervised clustering algorithm K-means, examining its underlying assumptions of (Euclidean) space and distance. Core to the workshop will be a consideration of data classification and clustering. What different kinds of sense-making emerge when handling of data is grounded in the experience of having a body? What is a unit of anatomical space and how can that inform embodied approaches to machine learning?

https://anatomiesofintelligence.github.io/

The presence of Anatomies of Intelligence at ISEA2022 is supported in part by STROOM Den Haag.