This is the creation research project of Vera van der Burg, artist and researcher at TU Delft.
Vera is an artiste, designer and researcher, currently working as a PhD Student at the Technical University in Delft, as part of the Designing Intelligence Lab. Her research work involves AI and creative practice. In particular she develops and studies a reflexive approach of AI.
Exemple of Work by Vera: Objective Portraiture (2023)
(more details on Vera’s website)
In collaboration with Gijs de Boer & Studio Digital Native –
Design Academy Eindhoven
This was a three-day workshop with bachelor students of the Digital Native program. During these three days, the students trained their own object recognition algorithm and crafted an artwork specifically for this algorithm to analyze. The students collected datasets that represented their interests and fascinations, and then annotated those datasets with their judgments. This entire process of teaching the machine something about themselves became a reflexive journey for the students, making them realize how they positioned themselves within their research topics and making practices. It also generated a personal understanding of the workings of such an AI model.