[Commlist] Open Call: AnthroVision Journal special issue “ComputerVision”

https://journals.openedition.org/anthrovision/

OPEN CALL:

The AnthroVision Journal special issue on “Computer Vision” explores 
design, co-creation, and labour with image recognition technologies, and 
the shifting ontologies between knowledge and the senses using new 
digital tools. What methodological frameworks are there for 
anthropologists to work alongside engineers, designers and other 
professionals? We are seeking papers dealing with such issues, as well 
as, on the conditions of immaterial labour to create training sets.— 
Based off "Training Humans" by Dr. Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen, the 
current practices for creating training sets for computer vision AI 
harkens back to the colonial era of anthropology: systems-based 
interpretations of discrete cultures and the positivistic apparatus of 
observational film. In particular, people of color, migrants, and 
low-wage workers are the most vulnerable targets of this visual 
taxonomy. Furthermore, platforms for training computer vision, such as 
Amazon Mechanical Turk, are exploitative. Workers, based mainly in the 
global south, have just seconds to analyze each image in order to work 
at a pace that can profit them. This complicates the multi-sited 
entanglements of subjugation and exploitation between the observer and 
observed, laying the ground for examining the interrelations of 
epistemology, labour and AI bias.—How can anthropologists articulate 
ethical issues between knowledge formation, scientific institutions and 
neoliberalism. How do anthropologists find reflexive modes of analysis? 
Where are possibilities for future interventions?

Send abstract to :

jielianglin821(at)gmail.com
and nadinewanono(at)gmail.com
Abstract Deadline: Monday, September 7th.
Abstract length: 500 words.

Essay length: 6-7000 words

From
https://journals.openedition.org/anthrovision/?page=informations

Access and Licensing
Publication in open access

Publication costs
Publication fees: no
Submission fees: no

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