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ref : avatars-in-zoom ref : avatars-in-zoom
date : 2020-09-18 00:00 date : 2020-09-18 00:00
youtube: vwW8dSKMpSE youtube: vwW8dSKMpSE
pic: /assets/img/rf2020/participants/eyal-gruss.png
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How can you be anybody in Zoomspace? Very recent developments in deep-learning, allow creating synthetic media of unprecedented quality and ease. The first-order-motion-model can do facial reenactment in real-time, provided with only a single image of your desired avatar. This came not a moment too soon, as Human communication was forced to move online due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Can this be an opportunity to fulfil the long promised cybernetic utopia, where we could shed our physical shells and become however we wish to be? And how does this pertain to issues of privacy, identity and trust? I will review the contemporary technologies and show how I use them in my artistic and activist practices. This is a hands-on participatory tutorial, where you will create deep-fake videos using your own materials, and play with various options of becoming an online avatar. No prior knowledge needed. How can you be anybody in Zoomspace? Very recent developments in deep-learning, allow creating synthetic media of unprecedented quality and ease. The first-order-motion-model can do facial reenactment in real-time, provided with only a single image of your desired avatar. This came not a moment too soon, as Human communication was forced to move online due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Can this be an opportunity to fulfil the long promised cybernetic utopia, where we could shed our physical shells and become however we wish to be? And how does this pertain to issues of privacy, identity and trust? I will review the contemporary technologies and show how I use them in my artistic and activist practices. This is a hands-on participatory tutorial, where you will create deep-fake videos using your own materials, and play with various options of becoming an online avatar. No prior knowledge needed.
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pronouns : She / Her pronouns : She / Her
links : ['http://annatokareva.net/', 'https://instagram.com/some.small.things'] links : ['http://annatokareva.net/', 'https://instagram.com/some.small.things']
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Anna Tokareva obtained a Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons) from Elam, University of Auckland and a Master of Creative Technologies with First Class Honours from Colab, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. She was then selected to join The New Normal research programme at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, Moscow. Tokareva’s ongoing research-led practice explores the mythologies and fictions of post-Cold War technopolitics, post-Soviet decolonial thought, and speculation on anti-capitalist futures and multi-species collaboration. Interested in manifesting alternatives to systemic imbalances; planting intoxicating thought-weeds. She makes digital art, design, and writes.
 Anna Tokareva obtained a Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons) from Elam, University of Auckland and a Master of Creative Technologies with First Class Honours from Colab, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. She was then selected to join The New Normal research programme at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, Moscow. Tokareva’s ongoing research-led practice explores the mythologies and fictions of post-Cold War technopolitics, post-Soviet decolonial thought, and speculation on anti-capitalist futures and multi-species collaboration. Interested in manifesting alternatives to systemic imbalances; planting intoxicating thought-weeds. She makes digital art, design, and writes.
Her e-book essay, “Nooscope: The Political Myth of Planetary Scale Computation,” was published by the Digital Cultures Institute, NZ in 2018, and her essay “Baba Yaga Myco Glitch” will be published in Queer Feminist Decolonial Ecologies Dossier, London, UK; in Kajet Journal, Bucharest, RO; and in href zine, Bremen, DE in 2020. Tokareva’s work has been published and exhibited in New Zealand, Europe and the UK. Her e-book essay, “Nooscope: The Political Myth of Planetary Scale Computation,” was published by the Digital Cultures Institute, NZ in 2018, and her essay “Baba Yaga Myco Glitch” will be published in Queer Feminist Decolonial Ecologies Dossier, London, UK; in Kajet Journal, Bucharest, RO; and in href zine, Bremen, DE in 2020. Tokareva’s work has been published and exhibited in New Zealand, Europe and the UK.
**2020**: Currently based in London, UK **2020**: Currently based in London, UK