Program into the exposure and inherent truths of coding: Chelsea Thompto

 To begin with the artist's talk, the guest is Chelsea Thompto who is hosting the lecture. She is a transdisciplinary artist and educator working at the intersections of art, trans studies, and technology. Thompto engages with a variety of media including video, computer code, digital fabrication, writing, photography, printmaking, and bookbinding.

Landmarks, 2021 (Ongoing)

Thompto's recent and ongoing work, "Landmarks" is a computer coding in the making progress of experimenting and exploration of the ways artificial intelligence. The specific focus is the failure of facial recognition from trans individual's bodies and identity in making the likelihood harder for access to technology and daily life with it. To connect at the time lecture in class about gays rights and genders talks about the norm of what is like making the piece that reflect the question to the viewer. My viewpoint on her work is fascinating of how technology fails to register or allow trans facial recognition which did pique my curiosity of how do the community feel about this restriction or forgotten implement to those group. Technology comes in a long way in constantly changing and evolving yet people initially get around the interface and regulation. Which did make me question of technology is truly for everyone up to speed with ongoing changes in human interacting and the use of technology in their daily lives.

https://www.chelseathompto.com/transcode-manifesto

Into her other works, "Transcode Manifesto" is currently generating documentation that may change or alter with the version that is up. The manifesto of the writing is experimented of how the transcode work at its core refuses linear understands of narrative, time, knowledge-making, and labor. Transcode examines code as a base material in culture’s generation of meaning and narrative. I lack the knowledge of coding and A.I. implementing into writing a script yet I still is interest in where the writing is leading towards or end the writing at a conclusion. The idea reminds of bots that are often time in some website dictates of the false/pretend of a person has a preference to response to corresponding word, term, and topic. 

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