{"id":232,"date":"2025-03-18T20:07:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T20:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.ucalgaryblogs.ca\/cmfgradconference\/?p=232"},"modified":"2025-04-24T20:33:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T20:33:27","slug":"the-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.ucalgaryblogs.ca\/cmfgradconference\/2025\/03\/18\/the-image\/","title":{"rendered":"The Image"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-duotone-duotone-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.ucalgaryblogs.ca\/cmfgradconference\/files\/2025\/01\/mediatingthemomentrameyairesult-1024x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.ucalgaryblogs.ca\/cmfgradconference\/files\/2025\/01\/mediatingthemomentrameyairesult-1024x375.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.ucalgaryblogs.ca\/cmfgradconference\/files\/2025\/01\/mediatingthemomentrameyairesult-300x110.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.ucalgaryblogs.ca\/cmfgradconference\/files\/2025\/01\/mediatingthemomentrameyairesult-768x281.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.ucalgaryblogs.ca\/cmfgradconference\/files\/2025\/01\/mediatingthemomentrameyairesult.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When I started considering an image for the conference CFP months ago, I was faced with the prevalence of AI in current mediated discourse. With a hesitant, but scholarly interest, I wanted to see how it can interpret the complex idea of &#8220;mediating the moment.&#8221; Of course, it couldn&#8217;t, producing images of &#8220;people&#8221; with poorly executed limbs. Due to this abstraction, I added additional terms to guide the result into something even more abstract adding words in small groups and saving results. The groups being: &#8220;technology mediating the moment social sciences galaxy world&#8221; and then the addition of &#8220;red and yellow humanities art&#8221; to this group. I merged the results of these two searches to create the final image. A human intervention, in something inhuman. You&#8217;ll notice that it gives itself away. What looks to maybe be a connected network of cities in the night or a circuit board is really just a randomized collection of lines. Is that light supposed to be the sun?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to the ethical implications of AI, this is the only experiment I ran. Other images that occasionally appear throughout the website were included within Photoshop&#8217;s generated options provided in the same results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 Hunter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started considering an image for the conference CFP months ago, I was faced with the prevalence of AI in current mediated discourse. With a hesitant, but scholarly interest, I wanted to see how it can interpret the complex idea of &#8220;mediating the moment.&#8221; Of course, it couldn&#8217;t, producing images of &#8220;people&#8221; with poorly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9554,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ucalgaryblogs.ca\/cmfgradconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ucalgaryblogs.ca\/cmfgradconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ucalgaryblogs.ca\/cmfgradconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ucalgaryblogs.ca\/cmfgradconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ucalgaryblogs.ca\/cmfgradconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ucalgaryblogs.ca\/cmfgradconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ucalgaryblogs.ca\/cmfgradconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ucalgaryblogs.ca\/cmfgradconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ucalgaryblogs.ca\/cmfgradconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ucalgaryblogs.ca\/cmfgradconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}