Giselle Beiguelman
Giselle Beiguelman is an artist, Full Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Urbanism and Design of the University of São Paulo (FAU-USP), and author of several books, including Políticas da imagem: vigilância e resistência na dadosfera (UBU Editora, 2nd ed. 2023) and Boundary Images (University of Minnesota Press, 2023, co-authored). Her works are held in the collections of MAC-USP and the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, as well as the Jewish Museum Berlin, the University of Essex’s Latin American Collection (ESCALA), and ZKM (Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe), among others. Her research examines the construction of the colonial imaginary in art and science through artificial intelligence. She coordinates the FAPESP project Digital Archives and Research and has received numerous national and international awards.
Articles of Giselle Beiguelman
Cássia Hosni, Giselle Beiguelman, Meta-Acervos and New Interpretations Emerging from Error
This visual essay examines the application of image classification and object detection algorithms to collections of drawings and paintings from Brazilian museums using Meta-Acervos, a platform that employs artificial intelligence models to analyze, organize and visualize artworks according to institutional, technical, chronological and visual descriptors. Rather than emphasizing the system’s accuracy, the essay focuses on its errors and on the potential for new readings afforded by ambiguity and interpretations not predicted by the program. We argue that this act of playing with errors and information not predicted within the logic of artificial intelligence models points to broader questions of agency and human intention in a world increasingly structured by apparatuses.
