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Gertrude Contemporary/Discipline Contemporary Art lecture #7 | Interface, Access, Loss - Sean Dockray

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LECTURE #7: Sean Dockray  Interface, Access, Loss with respondent Jake Goldenfein This lecture surveys how the structure of digital property has changed over the past few years with the growth of ‘the cloud’. Drawing on concepts from computer science, it traces a path from the peer-to-peer utopianism of a decade ago to the power and data centralising within today’s Internet platforms. It is a dark lecture, written under the cloud’s shadow, but I’ll conclude with an attempt to gesture toward some cracks in those interfaces that define the seemingly impermeable…

Lecture TONIGHT | When Computers Look at Art - David G. Stork

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When Computers Look at Art David G. Stork New computer methods have been used to shed light on a number of recent controversies in the study of art. For example, computer fractal analysis has been used in authentication studies of paintings attributed to Jackson Pollock recently discovered by Alex Matter. Computer wavelet analysis has been used for attribution of the contributors in Perugino’s Holy Family. An international group of computer and image scientists is studying the brushstrokes in paintings by van Gogh for detecting forgeries. Sophisticated computer analysis of perspective, shading,…