Bruno Moreschi
Biographic Data
| ID | 2737795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruno Moreschi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruno |
| FAMILY NAME | Moreschi |
| SIGNATURE | MORESCHI B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade de São Paulo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8938-5004 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Decay without mourning: Future-Thinking Heritage Practices
This paper seeks to further heritage theory and practice by considering decay as a transformative process contributing to heritage formation and value. Informed by our expertise in a variety of fields bordering heritage studies, we highlight the interplay of generative and degenerative aspects in different modes of decay and suggest that partnering with decay epistemologically, artistically, academically, practically, and democratically would all…
Five experimentations in computer vision: Seeing (through) images from Large Scale Vision Datasets
Using images from large-scale vision datasets (LSVDs), five practice-based studies – experimentations – were carried out to shed light on the visual content, replications of historical continuities, and precarious human labour behind computer vision. First, I focus my analysis on the dominant ideologies coming from a colonial mindset and modern taxonomy present in the visual content of the images. Then, in an exchange with microworkers, I highlig…
Living With Images From Large-Scale Data Sets: A Critical Pedagogy for Scaling Down
The emergence of contemporary computer vision coincides with the growth and dissemination of large-scale image data sets. The grandeur of such image collections has raised fascination and concern. This article critically interrogates the assumption of scale in computer vision by asking: What can be gained by scaling down and living with images from large-scale data sets? We present results from a practice-based methodology: an ongoing exchange of…
O Museu Paulista está fechado para obras: Revisões críticas e colaborativas da pintura Independência ou Morte, de Pedro Américo
Este artigo discute o conjunto de experiências colaborativas realizadas desde 2014 com pintores da Praça da República e do parque Trianon-Masp em reação ao fechamento temporário do Museu Paulista e à indisponibilidade da materialidade da pintura Independência ou morte, de Pedro Américo, durante a reforma dessa instituição. A partir de conceitos relacionados ao campo da pintura histórica do século XIX, aos processos de construção de memórias via s…
Images of Resistance: Thinking about Computer Vision AI in Surveillance Capitalism through Images of Marielle Franco
This article examines the ambivalent dynamics of activism in social media and online platforms. Made up of Brazilian researchers from areas such as Communication, Visual Arts and Design, Anthropology, Computer Science and Engineering, our group analysed 213,083 images shared on Instagram that are part of the hashtag #MariellePresente, an online political manifestation that arose in response to the assassination of Brazilian councilwoman Marielle …
Platform scams: Brazilian workers’ experiences of dishonest and uncertain algorithmic management
This article discusses how Brazilian platform workers experience and respond to platform scams through three case studies. Drawing from digital ethnographic research, vlogs/interviews of workers, and literature review, we argue for a conceptualization of “platform scam” that focuses on multiple forms of platform dishonesty and uncertainty. We characterize scam as a structuring element of the algorithmic management enacted by platform labor. The f…
Continuum histórico e normatizações em acervos de arte e datasets: Experimentos Com Inteligência Artificial No Museu Paulista
Este artigo apresenta um conjunto de experimentos no campo da História da Arte com tecnologias de Inteligência Artificial (visão computacional) realizados no âmbito do demonumenta, um projeto de pesquisa e extensão universitária que busca tensionar crítica e criativamente políticas públicas de memória. A partir do entendimento de que datasets (conjuntos de dados organizados) e acervos artísticos são práticas análogas, questionamos como trabalhar …
We've always been antagonistic: Algorithmic resistances and dissidences beyond the Global North
In this article we suggest that otherwise unacknowledged histories of technological antagonism can help us (artists, activists, and researchers) to more deeply appreciate the foundations on which we develop activist resistances to contemporary computing. Departing from the case of Brazil, our goal is to bridge historical and contemporary perspectives by: (1) discussing the everyday practises of technological dissidence in the country, and how app…
Which Human Faces Can an Ai Generate? Lack of Diversity in This Person Does Not Exist
In this abstract we show the results of an interdisciplinary research in which we audit fake human faces generated by the website This Person Does Not Exist (TPDNE), and discuss how this system can help perpetuate normativities supported by a dependency on a limited database. Our analysis is centered on the “default generic face” that we created by overlapping random samples of fake human faces generated by TPDNE's algorithms – a version of Gener…
“Yes, I Will Work on My Free Time” – Digital Work on Amazon Mechanical Turk as the Historical Continuation of the Exploitation of Women's Labor
In this proposal, we pursue an approximation to Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) women workers to understand their specificities and their layers of dependence in this environment so pertinent to the “late capitalism” (Crary 2016). AMT is an online platform where workers perform low-paid services that cannot be efficiently automated. Since 2019, in the Group [Anonymized excerpt], at the University [Anonymized excerpt], we have carried out projects wh…
Rt Movements
rt Movement(s) is an artist research project intended as a text object that materially represents the complex, relational articulation of art and history with particular emphases on the contingent relationships made by movements of different kinds: geographical migration of artists, displacement of art objects, performances, institutions/festivals, and theories/theorists. _rt Movement(s) challenges the linear developmental approach of normative a…
Artificial intelligence and institutional critique 2.0: Unexpected ways of seeing with computer vision
During 2018, as part of a research project funded by the Deviant Practice Grant, artist Bruno Moreschi and digital media researcher Gabriel Pereira worked with the Van Abbemuseum collection (Eindhoven, NL), reading their artworks through commercial image-recognition (computer vision) artificial intelligences from leading tech companies. The main takeaways were: somewhat as expected, AI is constructed through a capitalist and product-focused readi…
Future Movement Future – Rejected
In a not-too-distant future, an anonymous researcher and their team applied for funding to develop their newest invention: a new algorithmic model for smart cameras that would allow people to analyze the movement of cars at a previously unheard-of scale. This system was said to enable new forms of predictive capabilities to emerge: the algorithm would be able to, for example, predict the route drivers wanted to take but had not yet taken—includin…
The Brazilian Workers in Amazon Mechanical Turk: Dreams and realities of ghost workers
Contributing to research on digital platform labor in the Global South, this research surveyed 149 Brazilian workers in the Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) platform. We begin by offering a demographic overview of the Brazilian turkers and their relation with work in general. In line with previous studies of turkers in the USA and India, AMT offers poor working conditions for Brazilian turkers. Other findings we discuss include: how a large amount of…
Art Book: A Construção De Uma Enciclopédia De Artistas
This research proposes a study about the author and his works' process of legitimation in the visual arts on two complementary work fronts.The first, from artistic nature, is the creation of an encyclopedia of artists which, at first, does not differ from other publications of this type, but in fact has a very peculiar feature
Platform scams: Brazilian workers’ experiences of dishonest and uncertain algorithmic management
This article discusses how Brazilian platform workers experience and respond to platform scams through three case studies. Drawing from digital ethnographic research, vlogs/interviews of workers, and literature review, we argue for a conceptualization of “platform scam” that focuses on multiple forms of platform dishonesty and uncertainty. We characterize scam as a structuring element of the algorithmic management enacted by platform labor. The f…
The Brazilian Workers in Amazon Mechanical Turk: Dreams and realities of ghost workers
Contributing to research on digital platform labor in the Global South, this research surveyed 149 Brazilian workers in the Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) platform. We begin by offering a demographic overview of the Brazilian turkers and their relation with work in general. In line with previous studies of turkers in the USA and India, AMT offers poor working conditions for Brazilian turkers. Other findings we discuss include: how a large amount of…
We've always been antagonistic: Algorithmic resistances and dissidences beyond the Global North
In this article we suggest that otherwise unacknowledged histories of technological antagonism can help us (artists, activists, and researchers) to more deeply appreciate the foundations on which we develop activist resistances to contemporary computing. Departing from the case of Brazil, our goal is to bridge historical and contemporary perspectives by: (1) discussing the everyday practises of technological dissidence in the country, and how app…
Art Book: A Construção De Uma Enciclopédia De Artistas
This research proposes a study about the author and his works' process of legitimation in the visual arts on two complementary work fronts.The first, from artistic nature, is the creation of an encyclopedia of artists which, at first, does not differ from other publications of this type, but in fact has a very peculiar feature
The Brazilian Workers in Amazon Mechanical Turk: Dreams and realities of ghost workers
Contributing to research on digital platform labor in the Global South, this research surveyed 149 Brazilian workers in the Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) platform. We begin by offering a demographic overview of the Brazilian turkers and their relation with work in general. In line with previous studies of turkers in the USA and India, AMT offers poor working conditions for Brazilian turkers. Other findings we discuss include: how a large amount of…
Which Human Faces Can an Ai Generate? Lack of Diversity in This Person Does Not Exist
In this abstract we show the results of an interdisciplinary research in which we audit fake human faces generated by the website This Person Does Not Exist (TPDNE), and discuss how this system can help perpetuate normativities supported by a dependency on a limited database. Our analysis is centered on the “default generic face” that we created by overlapping random samples of fake human faces generated by TPDNE's algorithms – a version of Gener…
“Yes, I Will Work on My Free Time” – Digital Work on Amazon Mechanical Turk as the Historical Continuation of the Exploitation of Women's Labor
In this proposal, we pursue an approximation to Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) women workers to understand their specificities and their layers of dependence in this environment so pertinent to the “late capitalism” (Crary 2016). AMT is an online platform where workers perform low-paid services that cannot be efficiently automated. Since 2019, in the Group [Anonymized excerpt], at the University [Anonymized excerpt], we have carried out projects wh…
Rt Movements
rt Movement(s) is an artist research project intended as a text object that materially represents the complex, relational articulation of art and history with particular emphases on the contingent relationships made by movements of different kinds: geographical migration of artists, displacement of art objects, performances, institutions/festivals, and theories/theorists. _rt Movement(s) challenges the linear developmental approach of normative a…
Artificial intelligence and institutional critique 2.0: Unexpected ways of seeing with computer vision
During 2018, as part of a research project funded by the Deviant Practice Grant, artist Bruno Moreschi and digital media researcher Gabriel Pereira worked with the Van Abbemuseum collection (Eindhoven, NL), reading their artworks through commercial image-recognition (computer vision) artificial intelligences from leading tech companies. The main takeaways were: somewhat as expected, AI is constructed through a capitalist and product-focused readi…
Future Movement Future – Rejected
In a not-too-distant future, an anonymous researcher and their team applied for funding to develop their newest invention: a new algorithmic model for smart cameras that would allow people to analyze the movement of cars at a previously unheard-of scale. This system was said to enable new forms of predictive capabilities to emerge: the algorithm would be able to, for example, predict the route drivers wanted to take but had not yet taken—includin…
Images of Resistance: Thinking about Computer Vision AI in Surveillance Capitalism through Images of Marielle Franco
This article examines the ambivalent dynamics of activism in social media and online platforms. Made up of Brazilian researchers from areas such as Communication, Visual Arts and Design, Anthropology, Computer Science and Engineering, our group analysed 213,083 images shared on Instagram that are part of the hashtag #MariellePresente, an online political manifestation that arose in response to the assassination of Brazilian councilwoman Marielle …
Platform scams: Brazilian workers’ experiences of dishonest and uncertain algorithmic management
This article discusses how Brazilian platform workers experience and respond to platform scams through three case studies. Drawing from digital ethnographic research, vlogs/interviews of workers, and literature review, we argue for a conceptualization of “platform scam” that focuses on multiple forms of platform dishonesty and uncertainty. We characterize scam as a structuring element of the algorithmic management enacted by platform labor. The f…
Continuum histórico e normatizações em acervos de arte e datasets: Experimentos Com Inteligência Artificial No Museu Paulista
Este artigo apresenta um conjunto de experimentos no campo da História da Arte com tecnologias de Inteligência Artificial (visão computacional) realizados no âmbito do demonumenta, um projeto de pesquisa e extensão universitária que busca tensionar crítica e criativamente políticas públicas de memória. A partir do entendimento de que datasets (conjuntos de dados organizados) e acervos artísticos são práticas análogas, questionamos como trabalhar …
We've always been antagonistic: Algorithmic resistances and dissidences beyond the Global North
In this article we suggest that otherwise unacknowledged histories of technological antagonism can help us (artists, activists, and researchers) to more deeply appreciate the foundations on which we develop activist resistances to contemporary computing. Departing from the case of Brazil, our goal is to bridge historical and contemporary perspectives by: (1) discussing the everyday practises of technological dissidence in the country, and how app…
Five experimentations in computer vision: Seeing (through) images from Large Scale Vision Datasets
Using images from large-scale vision datasets (LSVDs), five practice-based studies – experimentations – were carried out to shed light on the visual content, replications of historical continuities, and precarious human labour behind computer vision. First, I focus my analysis on the dominant ideologies coming from a colonial mindset and modern taxonomy present in the visual content of the images. Then, in an exchange with microworkers, I highlig…
Living With Images From Large-Scale Data Sets: A Critical Pedagogy for Scaling Down
The emergence of contemporary computer vision coincides with the growth and dissemination of large-scale image data sets. The grandeur of such image collections has raised fascination and concern. This article critically interrogates the assumption of scale in computer vision by asking: What can be gained by scaling down and living with images from large-scale data sets? We present results from a practice-based methodology: an ongoing exchange of…
O Museu Paulista está fechado para obras: Revisões críticas e colaborativas da pintura Independência ou Morte, de Pedro Américo
Este artigo discute o conjunto de experiências colaborativas realizadas desde 2014 com pintores da Praça da República e do parque Trianon-Masp em reação ao fechamento temporário do Museu Paulista e à indisponibilidade da materialidade da pintura Independência ou morte, de Pedro Américo, durante a reforma dessa instituição. A partir de conceitos relacionados ao campo da pintura histórica do século XIX, aos processos de construção de memórias via s…
Decay without mourning: Future-Thinking Heritage Practices
This paper seeks to further heritage theory and practice by considering decay as a transformative process contributing to heritage formation and value. Informed by our expertise in a variety of fields bordering heritage studies, we highlight the interplay of generative and degenerative aspects in different modes of decay and suggest that partnering with decay epistemologically, artistically, academically, practically, and democratically would all…
Art (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · History (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (3 works)