Visualising data-ghosts: What potentialities are there in employing Artificial Intelligence (AI) apps to animate hauntings in posthuman early childhood education research practice?

Jo Albin-Clark

Visualising data-ghosts: What potentialities are there in employing Artificial Intelligence (AI) apps to animate hauntings in posthuman early childhood education research practice?

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What happens when you use Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications to visualise data that lingers, bothers and haunts in posthuman research practices? In this paper I flip attention to what has been bothersome amongst the liveliness and relationality of the human and more-than-human world once educational events have elapsed. I play with the neologism of a data-ghost that I imagine as bothersome bits of data that keep coming back as ghostly matters (Albin-Clark, In Press; Albin-Clark, 2022; Gordan, 2008). Drawing on concepts that keep on returning as spectres (Derrida, 2006), I play with troubling non-human data that lingers in the memory as sticky data (MacRae et al, 2018; MacLure, 2013).

In this paper I explore the generative capacities of AI apps as examples of computational objects and explore the ways they problematise ethical human-non-human assemblages (Leander and Burriss, 2020). AI applications are a relatively new and fast-evolving technology that generates multiple digital artworks from simple text prompts. The provocation I offer is to ponder what happens when research practices engage with AI apps to visualise fragments of non-human data-ghosts. Can such AI visualisations of the bothersome and troubling help us to shape research practices with the non-human in affirmative ways?

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 27 Oct 2022
Event	Pedagogical Provocations [Twitter conference] Association of Visual Pedagogies - online Duration: 26 Oct 2022 → 27 Oct 2022 https://visualpedagogies.com/2022-seminar-series/

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Conference	Pedagogical Provocations [Twitter conference] Association of Visual Pedagogies
Abbreviated title	AVP22
Period	26/10/22 → 27/10/22
Internet address	https://visualpedagogies.com/2022-seminar-series/

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