From 1999aace63c864c67d6d893016a29f404d2ef5d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: james Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 06:18:31 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update 'content/topic/interviews.md' --- content/topic/interviews.md | 18 ++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/topic/interviews.md b/content/topic/interviews.md index 570c4aa..2cb5231 100644 --- a/content/topic/interviews.md +++ b/content/topic/interviews.md @@ -7,16 +7,19 @@ has_experiments: [] ## Lauren McCarthy +[Lauren](https://lauren-mccarthy.com/) talks us through some of her many works concerned with smart speakers, machine listening and social relationships in the midst of surveillance, automation, and algorithmic living. We discuss: [LAUREN](https://lauren-mccarthy.com/LAUREN), for which she attempted to become a human version of Alexa, [SOMEONE](https://lauren-mccarthy.com/SOMEONE), which won her the [Prix Ars Electronica 2020 / Interactive Art +](https://ars.electronica.art/homedelivery/en/winners-prix-interactive-art/), and a range of related works and political questions. ![Interview conducted on 22 September, 2020](audio:https://machinelistening.exposed/library/Lauren%20Lee%20McCarthy/Lauren%20Lee%20McCarthy%20(23)/Lauren%20Lee%20McCarthy%20-%20Lauren%20Lee%20McCarthy.mp3) ## Alex Ahmed +Alex talks to us about [Project Spectra](https://github.com/project-spectra), an online community-based, free and open source software application for transgender voice training. + ![Interview conducted on 21 September, 2020](audio:https://machinelistening.exposed/library/Alex%20Ahmed/Alex%20Ahmed%20(22)/Alex%20Ahmed%20-%20Alex%20Ahmed.mp3) ## Stefan Maier -Stefan's 2018 [dossier on machine listening for Technosphere](https://technosphere-magazine.hkw.de/p/1-WaveNet-On-Machine-and-Machinic-Listening-a2mD8xYCxtsLqoaAnTGUbn) puts the work of artists like George Lewis, Jennifer Walshe, Florian Hecker, and Maryanne Amacher into conversation with Google's wavenet. We talk about these and other works along with Stefan's own work which treats machine listening as a prepared instrument, ready to be detourned. +[Stefan's](http://stefanmaier.studio/info/) 2018 [dossier on machine listening for Technosphere](https://technosphere-magazine.hkw.de/p/1-WaveNet-On-Machine-and-Machinic-Listening-a2mD8xYCxtsLqoaAnTGUbn) puts the work of artists like George Lewis, Jennifer Walshe, Florian Hecker, and Maryanne Amacher into conversation with Google's wavenet. We talk about these and other works along with Stefan's own work which treats machine listening as a prepared instrument, ready to be detourned. ![Interview conducted on 11 September, 2020](audio:https://machinelistening.exposed/library/Stefan%20Maier/Stefan%20Maier%20(21)/Stefan%20Maier%20-%20Stefan%20Maier.mp3) @@ -28,20 +31,29 @@ Stefan's 2018 [dossier on machine listening for Technosphere](https://technosphe ## James Parker (w Jasmine Guffond) -![Interview conducted on 1 September, 2020](audio:https://machinelistening.exposed/library/Andre%20Dao/Andre%20Dao%20(26)/Andre%20Dao%20-%20Andre%20Dao.mp3) +This is the first of three radio shows as part of [Jasmine's](https://jasmineguffond.bandcamp.com/album/microphone-permission) guest residency at Noods Radio. It features an interview with [James](https://law.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/james-parker) about his research on machine listening, this curriculum, the project with Unsound, and a selection of electronic music. + +![Interview conducted on 1 September, 2020](audio: ) ## Jùnchéng Billy Lì +[Billy](https://lijuncheng16.github.io/index.html) tells us about his research on "adversarial music", and in particular an attempt to produce a ["Real World Audio Adversary +Against Wake-word Detection Systems"](https://machinelistening.exposed/library/BROWSE_LIBRARY.html#/book/fac6c1a2-946f-43c4-83f5-e54fd7185c18) for Amazon Alexa. + ![Interview conducted on 7 September, 2020](audio:https://machinelistening.exposed/library/Juncheng%20Billy%20Li/Juncheng%20Billy%20Li%20(25)/Juncheng%20Billy%20Li%20-%20Juncheng%20Billy%20Li.mp3) ## André Dao +[André](https://andredao.com/) talks to us about [UN Global Pulse](https://www.unglobalpulse.org/), the UN's big data initiative, and in particular one program which "uses machine Learning to analyse radio content in Uganda". We discuss the increasing entanglements of big tech, the UN and human rights discourse more broadly, as well as an emergent "right to be counted". + ![Interview conducted on 4 September, 2020](audio:https://machinelistening.exposed/library/Andre%20Dao/Andre%20Dao%20(26)/Andre%20Dao%20-%20Andre%20Dao.mp3) ## Vladan Joler +Vladan walks us through [Anatomy of an AI System](https://anatomyof.ai/), his 2018 work with [Kate Crawford](https://www.katecrawford.net/), which diagrams the Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources. We talk about the politics of visibility and method as well as Vladan's work with [Share Lab](https://labs.rs/en/) ("where indie data punk meets media theory pop to investigate digital rights blues." + ![Interview conducted on 1 September, 2020](audio:https://machinelistening.exposed/library/Vladan%20Joler/Vladan%20Joler%20(part%202)%20(29)/Vladan%20Joler%20(part%202)%20-%20Vladan%20Joler.mp3) @@ -76,6 +88,8 @@ Leading off from [Shannon's](https://wordsinspace.net/shannon/) essay on ["Urban ## Kathy Reid +[Kathy](https://github.com/KathyReid) talks to us about her work with Mycroft, Mozilla and now 3AI on open source voice assistants and the technics and politics of automatic speech recognition. + ![Interview conducted on 11 August, 2020](audio:https://machinelistening.exposed/library/Kathy%20Reid/Kathy%20Reid%20(27)/Kathy%20Reid%20-%20Kathy%20Reid.mp3)