Jake Elwes
Queering the Dataset - Zizi in space, 2021
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C-type print on [type of paper] with [type of edge]
Signed by the artist & Individually numbered/dated.
Arrives with a certificate of authenticity.
Release date: April 14, 2026
Unframed: 33cm (W) x 33cm (H)
C-type print on [type of paper] with [type of edge]
Signed by the artist & Individually numbered/dated.
Arrives with a certificate of authenticity.
Release date: April 14, 2026
Unframed: 33cm (W) x 33cm (H)
Zizi – Queering the Dataset by Jake Elwes aims to tackle the lack of representation and diversity in the training datasets often used by facial recognition systems. The prints are...
Zizi – Queering the Dataset by Jake Elwes aims to tackle the lack of representation and diversity in the training datasets often used by facial recognition systems. The prints are drawn from a process developed by disrupting these systems* and retraining 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 works are a celebration of difference and ambiguity, inviting us to reflect on bias in our data-driven society.
*A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks (2019)
Zizi – Queering the Dataset lets us peek inside the machine learning system and visualise what the neural network has (and hasn’t) learnt. The works are a celebration of difference and ambiguity, inviting us to reflect on bias in our data-driven society.
*A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks (2019)
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