In this Screen Walk, the collective Estampa opened the very machine they use to develop AI projects and invite the audience to take part in a live journey into their own computer. The walk offered a tour behind the scenes of their work, revealing some of the processes and tools used by the collective to work with machine learning locally, rather than employing online platforms. It was also a journey through time and recent AI history, as the timeframe of Estampa's projects covers six years in which several techniques have changed and evolved in the field. During the walk, old and recent neural networks were used to generate images or text, and a computer vision tool will searched through 600000 images stored in their hard drive, experimenting with randomness and reflecting upon the medium.

Biographies

Estampa is a collective of programmers, filmmakers and researchers whose practice is based on a critical and archaeological approach to audiovisual and digital technologies. Since 2017, they have developed a significant body of work focused on the uses and ideologies of AI, an interest that began with a project programmatically titled The Bad Pupil. Critical Pedagogy for Artificial Intelligences (2017-2018). This has been followed by more than twenty research projects, installations, performances or films, which can be consulted on the website tallerestampa.com.