In 2019, without seeking our permission or informing us, Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen made use of the JAFFE dataset for their art exhibitions and the self-published, populist web essay Excavating AI. Crawford and Paglen violated the JAFFE terms of use and the conditions under which the JAFFE volunteers gave informed consent.

Here are parts I and II of my commentary on their abuse of the JAFFE dataset:

pt I: Excavating “Excavating AI”: The Elephant in the Gallery

pt II: “Excavating AI” Re-excavated: Debunking a Fallacious Account of the JAFFE Dataset

In September 2021, after being rudely slandered on Twitter by Trevor Paglen, I wrote a shorter essay:

Indiscretions of a Contemporary Artist

The essay is also available as a pdf file.

Queen of Dots screens at the 18th Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul coming soon.

Queen of Dots received a Jurors’ Award at the 59th Ann Arbor Film Festival

Queen of Dots is selected to screen at the 59th Ann Arbor Film Festival held March 23-28th, 2021. The festival will take place online this year.

Queen of Dots screens at the Kaboom Animation Festival held in Amsterdam and Utrecht, NL March 31 – April 4, 2021.

Nonoko/Kaos No Ma is selected to screen at the inaugural edition of the Helios Sun Poetry Festival held Dec. 14-19 in Mexico City.

Porto Landscape and Kites at the Kamogawa (for Jonas Mekas) are screening at the ULTRAcinema festival held in Mexico City, November 17 – 22.

Film Loop 31: Shisendo will screen at Fisura, Experimental Cinema & Video International Film Festival to be held at the Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City.

Nonoko/Kaos No Ma screened at Danzattack 2020, held in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain Oct. 2-11.

Film Loop 34: Ryoanji streams live on November 9, as part of Program 2, Spectral Microcinema 2020. The programs and streaming links are available online.