AI Art’s watchful eye on AI surveillance

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https://doi.org/10.29147/datjournal.v9i3.858

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AI Art, Surveillance, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Art

Abstract

This investigation explores how the field of AI Art has turned to surveillance issues that make use of artificial intelligence. These surveillance technologies, which use computer vision, such as eye tracking, and advanced algorithmic decisions, have a significant impact on the privacy and control of subjectivities. We examine how artists criticize issues of surveillance in their artistic proposals, telling us about a surveillance that is both veiled and declared. Furthermore, we problematize such issues in a very particular way in the artwork CyberFaces (2023), by LabInter/Brazil. By highlighting the invasive nature of surveillance, our study emphasizes the role of art in forming a reflective understanding and openness to discussions about surveillance in contemporary society. Therefore, critically, this article leads us to think about operational systems and the functioning of AI technologies, their storage and sharing systems, and in the ambiguous dynamics of desired and explicit AI surveillance, and, often concomitantly, rejected and denied.

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Author Biographies

Andréia Machado Oliveira

Artist, researcher and teacher in the areas of art, science and technology. CNPq/PQ2 researcher. Research Associate at the University of the Witwatersrand/South Africa. Postdoctoral at the City University of Hong Kong and doctorate at UFRGS and Université de Montréal. Deputy director of the Center for Arts and Letters, professor at DAV and PPG in Visual Arts, and coordinator of LabInter/PPGART at the Federal University of Santa Maria. https://www.ufsm.br/laboratorios/labinter

Felix Rebolledo Palazuelos

Pós-doutor em Estudos da Comunicação pela Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), RS, Brasil. Doutor em Psicolo- gia Social e Institucional pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil. Mestre Fine Arts and Bachelor in Fine Arts com Habilitação em Cinema Production pela Concordia University, Montreal, Canadá. Bacharel em Engenharia Civil pela University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canadá. Membro do LabInter (https://www.ufsm.br/laboratorios/labinter).

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2024-11-21

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Oliveira, A. M., & Palazuelos, F. R. (2024). AI Art’s watchful eye on AI surveillance. DAT Journal, 9(3), 59–73. https://doi.org/10.29147/datjournal.v9i3.858

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Vol. 9 No. 3 (2024): ART, DESIGN AND TECNOLOGY

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