Limits of Computability zine submission
The Limits of Computability is a forthcoming zine publication which “ identifies boundaries in the capability of computer systems to account for all aspects of their worlds of interest [ …] Presented through one aspect of the phenomena that they render, that which resists the requirement to simplify, abstract, flatten or warp, and thereby discloses a limit to computability.”
My submission is comic which reflects on my experience participating in the Politics of Imaginaries Workshop, at the 2023 conference for Designing Interactive Systems. My workshop topic critically examined the influential ImageNet dataset, widely used in machine learning to train object recognition models, and analyzed it from 14 dimensions, inspired by Haraway and Dumit's concept of "implosion.”
The comic below was created using entirely images trawled from the dataset, whose strangeness was amplified by their displacement from their original context.
