LIAS Film Series: "Acapulco"
Wednesday, February 12th, 7:30 pm
12. Feb
In the LIAS film series in cooperation with the SCALA arthouse cinema, international films on cultural and socially critical topics are accompanied by introductions and discussions every month.
In this experimental feature film, Brazilian artistic researcher and filmmaker Bruno Moreschi and visual artist Pedro Gallego offer a fascinating and critical look behind the scenes of complex visual data sets that serve as training material for machines and artificial intelligences. Using an interdisciplinary and creative methodology, the film provides a deeper understanding of the visual data that our machines ‘see’. The film accompanies Moreschi's long-term research process, in which he analyses these images and at the same time interacts with experts, artists and click workers.
Acapulco addresses the complexity of machine learning, the proliferation of fakes, and historical practices that precede AI but help us understand its less obvious logics. It also looks at the click workers who tag images in precarious jobs and thus make machine learning possible in the first place. In a reflection on how our digital world is constructed through human participation and technical advances, it impressively demonstrates the central role that humans play in the supposedly automated world of artificial intelligence and the cultural practice of understanding images.
Switzerland, Brazil 2024, Directors: Bruno Moreschi and Pedro Gallego, Pedro Gallego, 78 min, original with English Subtitels
Introduction with the director Bruno Moreschi (LIAS-Fellow) and Inge Hinterwaldner (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).
Free admission.
SCALA Arthouse Cinema | Apothekenstr. 17 | 21335 Lüneburg
