[4eyes] FW: [ Fabian Offert - THE MAT Seminar Series - Monday / Oct 8 / 1pm ] CNSI 1601

[Matthew Turk]

Some of you might be interested in the MAT seminar tomorrow at 1pm – PhD student Fabian Offert will discuss his perspective on interpretable machine learning. See the abstract and info below.

 

            Matthew

 

 

NOTES ON THE EPISTEMOLOGY AND AESTHETICS OF INTERPRETABLE MACHINE LEARNING

 

MONDAY. OCT. 8TH. 2018 · Elings Hall (CNSI) · Room 1601 · 1PM

The primary goal of machine learning models today is not the mechanization of reason but the mechanization of perception. As a consequence, many of the tasks that machine learning models face are aesthetic tasks, ranging from the classification of images (CNNs) to the generation of completely new images (GANs). At the same time, the technical opacity of machine learning models makes it inherently difficult to properly evaluate their results. In fact, the interpretability of machine learning models has not only become an independent field of research within computer science but has also grown into an increasingly important philosophical challenge. The once speculative phenomenological question "how does the machine perceive the world" has become a real-world problem. In this talk I will try to answer the question “how does the machine perceive the world” by means of both a technical and a philosophical close reading of contemporary machine learning algorithms from the domain of interpretable machine learning. I will present ongoing research on the potential of feature visualizations for Digital Art History, on the notion of representation in feature visualizations, and on the aesthetics of ML-generated imagery.

 

Fabian Offert is a scholar, curator and stage designer. His work integrates technically informed critical and artistic approaches to the epistemological and aesthetic issues arising from contemporary machine learning algorithms. Currently, he is a doctoral candidate and Regent’s Fellow in the Media Arts and Technology program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he also teaches. His academic work has been featured at NIPS, ECCV, SIGGRAPH, Harvard University, EPFL, and other research universities. Before coming to California, Fabian worked at Goethe Institut New York and ZKM | Karlsruhe where he curated and managed several large-scale media art exhibitions. He received his Diploma degree from Justus Liebig University Gießen, where he was a German National Academic Foundation Fellow and student of composer and director Heiner Goebbels. His stage design work, supported by Kunststiftung NRW, the French Ministry of Culture, and others, is frequently shown in museums and theaters all over Europe, most recently at Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, https://www.zentralwerkstatt.org.

 

 

 
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