Category: Week 3 (Jan 30 + Feb 1)

  • Fordism and Systematic Exploitation

    In NOEMA’s article, the authors brought up the issue of labor exploitation in the process of training AI and related fields of machine learning. It is not as neat and clean or high-grade technology as it appears to be, but rather an inhuman and capitalistic machine fueled up with millions of human bodies who are…

  • Week Three Viewer Blog

    As a visionary, Kubrick brings out unbridled, often dystopian, fictions of society onto the cinematic screen, as exemplified by A Clockwork Orange (1971) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999). As a pragmatist, he obsesses over the details of his films down to seconds and pixels, frequently at the sacrifice of his colleagues. Guided by his passionate…

  • Week 3 Searcher Blog

    https://www.vox.com/2018/4/26/17283314/2001-a-space-odyssey-music-stanley-kubrick-50th-anniversary Music is a big component in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), considering the sparse 40 minutes of dialogue spread across the nearly two-and-a-half-hour cinematic journey. The profound stillness of space, coupled with the serene and deliberate pace of visuals, starkly contrasts the impactful role of sound and music, ultimately placing a significant emphasis on…

  • Week3 Viewer Blog

    Jennifer Jiang, Week 3 (Jan 30 + Feb 1)

  • Where are the Women?

    Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) provides plenty of slower moments that force a viewer to reflect. One major question I had on my mind was, Where are the women? The few women in the story barely have any screen time or lines, and are minimal in the grand scheme of the film. In…

  • Week 3 Reader Blog

    In her Bodies in Space: Film as Carnal Knowledge essay, Michelson poses that Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey places the viewer in a state of reflexive suspense. She argues that by undermining our “operational reality”, both through literal suspension in outer space, as well as through the constant thematic and plot-driven subversion of expectations,…

  • Week 3 Reader Blog

    Scientists Increasingly Can’t Explain How AI Works (Chloe Xiang, 2022) It is frightening to think of the black box nature of AI systems. Black box model is the system that utilize inputs and outputs to create information without explanation of how the output is produced, nor does it show the internal mechanism of the output…

  • AI and Justice

    Last year, Judge Juan Manuel Padilla in Cartagena, Colombia, sought assistance from ChatGPT in a legal case involving insurance coverage for an autistic child’s medical treatment. Despite the verdict being in the family’s favor, the inclusion of ChatGPT in the court ruling started a debate. The Guardian highlights experts’ strong opposition to AI integration into…

  • Blogging Example

    The cycle of natural decay is both materially enacted and mirrored in the making of Jennifer Reeves’s Landfill 16 (2011), which takes up the idea of recycling, waste management, and the death of film. Reeves buried 16mm outtakes from her double-projection celebration of the natural world, When It Was Blue (2008), in a homemade landfill…