Diplomprosjekt
Interaksjonsdesign
Høst 2021
Institutt for design
Writing With the Machine is an explorative design diploma investigating machine learning as a design material. As a design experiment, I trained a machine learning model on an archive of personal letters written by my great grandfather. Using this experiment as a starting point, working hands on with both the data material and the software, I reflect upon different aspects of machine learning.
The main ambition of the project is to investigate - how might we use design to explore and communicate aspects of machine learning? How can we approach highly technical and com-plex technologies like machine learning, through alternative perspectives and approaches?
The outcome of the experiment is a set of three books, alongside a website. The books showcase materials from different steps in the experiment - scans from the analogue letter archive, the process of digitizing and transcribing the archive, letters generated by the machine. The web-site collects observations from the experiment and functions as a digital resource with links to the works that have inspired the project. Together these artifacts make out a framework to dis-cuss and talk about machine learning.
Eirunn Marie Margaret Kvalnes / +47 93873653 / www.eirunnkvalnes.com
The main ambition of the project is to investigate - how might we use design to explore and communicate aspects of machine learning? How can we approach highly technical and com-plex technologies like machine learning, through alternative perspectives and approaches?
The outcome of the experiment is a set of three books, alongside a website. The books showcase materials from different steps in the experiment - scans from the analogue letter archive, the process of digitizing and transcribing the archive, letters generated by the machine. The web-site collects observations from the experiment and functions as a digital resource with links to the works that have inspired the project. Together these artifacts make out a framework to dis-cuss and talk about machine learning.
Eirunn Marie Margaret Kvalnes / +47 93873653 / www.eirunnkvalnes.com