A small selection of original artworks available for purchase. These are unique, one-off pieces — once sold, they will not be reproduced.
My practice spans film, drawing, collage, and mixed media, often exploring themes of technology, perception, and the spaces between physical and digital experience. The research archive Living as Data documents ongoing investigations into AI emotional understanding and is not for sale.
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Unhindered AI — Concertina Books
Heidi Stokes in collaboration with Mercedes Bunz
Unhindered AI explores how AI systems process images and how the technology of 'machine learning' is enabling computers to understand and generate human language. It explores how the systems generate meaning with a curiosity for machinic difference: AI systems do not create images or language the same way humans do. Instead, what it does is more akin to data visualisation.
Unlike humans who get inspiration from reality, AI models derive what they make only from what they've been trained on. They don't really 'know' anything; the best they can do is spot and reproduce trends from data. This series explores the machinic side in a playful and haptic manner including the hallucinations, mistakes, and biases AI systems have become known for.
Available
AI Bias
2023
When it comes to bias in AI, examples all have one thing in common – data. AI learns bias from the data it's trained on, which means researchers have to be really careful about how they gather and treat that data.
AI perceives texture not form. It gradually develops an image by revealing edges, lines, followed by pixels and then gradually recognisable parts of an image.
