Digital America interviewed Avital Meshi in early November 2020 to discuss her work Deconstructing Whiteness (2020) and the racial impacts of facial recognition technology in our society.
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CURRENTS 2020 artist, Avital Meshi, shows us around her California studio. She discusses how identity, machine learning and Second Life play important roles in her work. We get a sneak peak at her new performance piece, Don’t Worry Be Happy, which involves facial recognition software and an electric chair. Avital’s piece, Live Feed, was part of CURRENTS 2019. Check out more of her work at avitalmeshi.com, as well as this 2019 CURRENTS interview conducted by C!
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“Inside the Classification Cube: An Intimate Interaction With an AI System” is a SIGGRAPH 2020 Art Papers selection that explores one of society’s most frequently asked questions — how do people portray themselves versus how others portray them? Here, we catch up with new media artist Avital Meshi to learn how the “Classification Cube” installation invites people to interact with an AI classification system and experience in real time how they are viewed through its lens.
(Image by: David Pace)
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(Image by: David Pace)
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Five questions answered by Avital Meshi, who brought her performance ‘Live Feed‘ to Currents 2019 opening weekend.by C. Alex Clark
Are we disappearing into the digital? How do we act when we leave our bodies behind? What new ways of interaction can be experienced in the space between the digital and the real? These are some of the questions which Avital Meshi addresses in her work. Along with the experience of juggling motherhood, art-making, and the academic, Meshi also has had a strong presence in online virtual worlds (such as Second-Life ) for several years. This has directed her investigations towards the performative aspect of interacting within the virtual, as well as the space for interpretation, learning, invention and imagination that spans the uncharted terrain between the virtual and the real.
(Image by Kate Russell)
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Are we disappearing into the digital? How do we act when we leave our bodies behind? What new ways of interaction can be experienced in the space between the digital and the real? These are some of the questions which Avital Meshi addresses in her work. Along with the experience of juggling motherhood, art-making, and the academic, Meshi also has had a strong presence in online virtual worlds (such as Second-Life ) for several years. This has directed her investigations towards the performative aspect of interacting within the virtual, as well as the space for interpretation, learning, invention and imagination that spans the uncharted terrain between the virtual and the real.
(Image by Kate Russell)
Read the Interview here