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Abstract
This talk, by YoungSuk Lee, a UmArts WASP-HS Art and AI Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Umeå Institute of Design (UID), introduces a design experiment through four interactions that mirror and amplify biases in human relationships - dominance, exclusion, hostility, and fractured balance. As new technologies enter everyday life, designs have to address new interactions between ethics and aesthetics as new possibilities also come with new consequences. A current example concerns AI: the tension between its predictive and generative possibilities and the consequences of the biases that easily come as part of such abilities. YoungSuk Lee seek to explore bias beyond eliminating it by starting from the idea that if bias is present, what could it be like to work with its expressions? And could exploring ´aesthetics of bias´ allow us to come closer to where it comes from in the first place, in how people relate to others? By practice-based research, this project investigates how bias can be creatively expressed in technology design with an interactive installation, “Poetic Layers”, consisting of a window, a sugar jar, a coffee pot, and a table, trained and acted by AI and ML.
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Young Suk Lee take up the position of UmArts WASP-HS Art and AI Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Umeå Institute of Design, after completing my PhD work 'Expressive Entities: An Exploration and Critical Reflection on Poetic Engagements with Technology' at the School of Engineering Technology, University of Twente, The Netherlands. My design practice is based on an integrated background: Fine Art (MFA), and Digital Art (MFA) & Human-Computer Interaction (MS). This cross-disciplinary asset offers a unique perspective on designing human-technology relations through expressive aesthetics, emphasizing a humanistic approach.