Amy Whittle

NSFW

How free is Instagram truly regarding artistic expression?

Digital nudity recognition is being used by Instagram, detecting and deleting images inappropriate for it's users. Instagram's guidelines claims to allow nudity in the form of art. In the past however, Instagram's software mistook images of cakes, identifying them as nudity. How free is Instagram truly regarding artistic expression? What is artistic nudity? Is pornography a form of art or not? How does one categorize nudity? How does this technology categorize nudity?

To answer these questions, random images of the internet were fed to an artificial intelligence software claiming to detect nudity. Surprisingly, images of rosettes stuck on a horse's head, dandelions, rasters and cake decorations were identified as nudity. This image research was transformed into a wearable piece and presented at the Clash show during Fashionclash Festival 2017.

type

    wearable
    information design
    conceptual

initiated by

    FashionClash

techniques

    Adobe Photoshop
    Adobe Indesign
    Adobe Illustrator

many thanks to

    Lisa Whittle
    FashionClash
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