Jake Elwes
ZiZi, Queering the Dataset, 2019
Multi-channel digital video
135 minute loop
Ed. 2/3 + 1 AP
Copyright The Artist
‘Zizi - Queering the Dataset’ aims to tackle the lack of representation and diversity in the training datasets often used by facial recognition systems. The video was made by disrupting...
‘Zizi - Queering the Dataset’ aims to tackle the lack of representation and diversity in the training datasets often used by facial recognition systems. The video was made by disrupting these systems* and re-training them with the addition of drag and gender fluid faces found online. This causes the weights inside the neural network to shift away from the normative identities it was originally trained on and into a space of queerness. ‘Zizi - Queering The Dataset’ lets us peek inside the machine learning system and visualise what the neural network has (and hasn’t) learnt. The work is a celebration of difference and ambiguity, which invites us to reflect on bias in our data driven society.
*A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks (2019)
Instagram @zizidrag - machine learning generated captions and looks trained on drag profiles.
Zizi was originally commissioned as a seven channel video installation by Experiential AI at Edinburgh Futures Institute and Inspace.
Presented as site specific video installation with between 3 and 7 projected video channels.
*A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks (2019)
Instagram @zizidrag - machine learning generated captions and looks trained on drag profiles.
Zizi was originally commissioned as a seven channel video installation by Experiential AI at Edinburgh Futures Institute and Inspace.
Presented as site specific video installation with between 3 and 7 projected video channels.
Exhibitions
PRETERNATURAL: Jake Elwes Solo show, Data Lates | Inspace Gallery, Edinburgh 2019Real-Time Contraints (virtual browser extension, COVID-19), Arebyte Gallery, London, UK, 2019
Fluid Bodies, E-WERK Freiburg, Germany, 2019
You and AI (touring), Onassis Foundation and Future Everything, Gazometro Rome, Italy, 2020
Critical Borders: Radical (Re)visiions of AI, Center for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge University, UK, 2020
You and AI, Onassis Foundation, Pedion tou Areos Park, Athens, Greece, 2020
The Third Gender, A.K.T, Pforzheim, Germany, 2020
Among the Machines, Zabludowicz Collection, London, 2021
BIAS, Science Gallery Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 2021
Jake Elwes: Data • Glitch • Utopia (solo show), Gazelli Art House, London, UK, 2022
Riposte - Queer Art Techno Rave, Electrowerkz, London, 2022
UKINTER:ACTIVE - Breaking The Code CPH:DOX, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark 2022
The Horror Show! A Twisted Tale Of Modern Britain, Somerset House, London, 2022 - 23
Glitch. Die Kunst Der Störung, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany, 2023
Zizi - Queering the Dataset (solo display), Gazelli Art House, Mayfair, London, 2023
Surreal Futures, Max Ernst Museum, Brühl, Germany.2024
