This is one of the artists who was shown in the lecture ‘The Future of Fashion’ her exploration of Artificial Intelligence with Still Life really resonated with me as I work with still life and am exploring identity, emotions and new technologies. She asks questions like; How can you automate an emotional experience of the world? How can you capture this in a dataset? What can image recognition algorithms look like, if they are trained on merely subjective categories?
I interviewed Vera over Zoom as I wanted to gain a better understanding of how she incorporates Machine Learning and how AI could develop emotional intelligence into her work. We spoke for just under 30 minutes and I was really happy with the outcome. I had always been concerned that because I couldn’t code and had never used any 3D technology, I wouldn’t be able to address these issues, but Vera said she just speaks to people who code the algorithm and then she creates it hypothetically. This type of speculative practice is something which would suit me much more in terms of my skillset and interests.