Rosemary Lee

University of Porto | UP · Faculty of Engineering

What we see when we look at digital images is the result of underlying algorithmic processes, which are mostly hidden from view. While algorithms for image generation and processing contribute to a culture of mass-visualization, some aspects are obscured in the process. Automating visual tasks introduces an element of the unseen into the act of see...

The incorporation of algorithmic procedures into the automation of image production has been gradual, but has reached critical mass over the past century, especially with the advent of photography, the introduction of digital computers and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Due to the increasingly significant influen...

This thesis addresses how current notions of image production remain tied to historical ideas which often prove inadequate for the description of visual artefacts of machine learning (ML). ML refers to the notion of simulating the process of information acquisition computationally, and when applied to the generation of images, it enables visual con...

This paper questions how computational art can be interpreted as creative by humans and the theoretical implications this may have. It explores how the affordances of computational art lead to radically new aesthetic experiences. The computational is manifested sensuously but it is nevertheless non-perceptual as although it requires a physical subs...

As its aesthetics, methods, and conceptual focus have, in many respects, merged with those of mainstream contemporary art, the boundaries of media art have become more unclear than when the use of technology in art was more of a rare occurrence. While the term "media art" may be helpful in designating a particular sphere of practice and discourse,...

This essay examines how data-based practices contribute to new perspectives on the empirical value of images. Recent methods employing machine learning enable visualisations to be produced based on the large-scale analysis of data but that are detached from direct sensorial observation, subverting the forms of visual objectivity traditionally assoc...

Cryptographics is an artwork that reflects on the recent phenomenon of cryp- to art, which involves associating digital artifacts with blockchain, tokenizing artworks with non-fungible tokens (NFTs). This practice has recently been the subject of heated debate within art and the humanities, as well as setting off a feeding frenzy by artists, digita...

The technological mediation of human perception that occurs through images influences not only how images are produced and experienced but also how they are interpreted and theorised. The present incorporation of machine learning (ML) into various forms of visual media offers particular insight into this issue by highlighting the tension between im...

This paper seeks to clarify discourse on the mediating role played by visual technologies, especially focusing on how visual artefacts of machine learning (ML offer new ways of approaching theories of the image. Traditional perspectives often lean heavily on historical narratives regarding the technical production of images and even reiterate inacc...

The incorporation of algorithmic procedures into the automation of image production has been gradual, but has reached critical mass over the past century, especially with the advent of photography, the introduction of digital computers and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Due to the increasingly significant influen...

Visual media is increasingly impacted by algorithmic approaches to image production, which introduce new modalities into existing notions of the image. Rather than a fundamentally new phenomenon, current methodologies instead expand upon the automation of image production described by previous theories regarding the technological character of the i...

Exhibition Catalogue. machines will watch us die. The Holden Gallery, 2018, Manchester.

This book is an aggregate, formed through processes of artistic research: a collection and compaction of fragments of texts, images, and ideas. Parts are volcanic, others in the gradual process of sedimentation, tectonically shifting and recrystallising over time. The images and text of which this book is comprised are artefacts of a still ongoing...