I went into Handmade Datasets wanting to build an image-description generator and wound up trying to train a machine to hallucinate blind visionscapes.
Handmade Datasets
My increasing reliance on AI for my ongoing photography project made me curious to know more. I guest-lectured at the School for Poetic Computation years ago, and I’d been thinking that if I were to…
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I was delighted to join fellow blind culture creators, Lachi and James Tate Hill, for an important, fun, sexy, and a little bit punk discussion of how to have blind pride in an ocularcentric world. As writers and artists we need to think less about inclusion and more about shifting culture in our direction. I’m tired of saying: “Let me…
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On September 7 at 7PM EST, I’m delighted to be having a conversation reprise with James Tate Hill–but with a difference! In June, we discussed my book, There Plant Eyes, and this time we’ll be talking about his great memoir, Blind Man’s Bluff…
At Home With Literati: James Tate Hill and M. Leona Godin
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Sep 07, 7:00 PM…
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About the Book
From Homer to Helen Keller, from Dune to Stevie Wonder, from the invention of braille to the science of echolocation, M. Leona Godin explores the fascinating history of blindness, interweaving it with her own story of gradually losing her sight.
There Plant Eyes probes the ways in which blindness has shaped our ocularcentric culture, challenging deeply ingrained…
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