Generating Access: Alt(er)text
In this workshop session, Access Lab & Library (Jon Tjhia and Fayen d’Evie) will encourage participants to engage with networked culture through the framing of access. Why is alt text a contested space? How can we sustain critical positions in the mediated platforms we use to communicate? And how can practises like image description extend and expand the craft of writing?
Drawing on discourses around agency, authorship and knowledge creation, and through conversation, solo and collaborative practise, you’ll undertake a round of exercises that query authorship, speak to position and perspective, and recognise the generative significance of emergent knowledge.
I. Lecture
ai embedding algo biases … utilise alt text for parallel subtext/convos … how to author alt text to flatten/obscure or sustain critical positions…. reverse prompting… reveal registers of awareness / attention
conversations bw ppl
ai = no new knowledge (vs position of ‘emerging’ writers)
Refs that might be relevant to browse
Understanding and evaluating harms of AI-generated image captions in political images
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/political-science/articles/10.3389/fpos.2023.1245684/fullIt’s Complicated”: Negotiating Accessibility and
(Mis)Representation in Image Descriptions of Race, Gender, and
Disability
https://guoanhong.com/papers/CHI21-ImageDescriptions.pdf
Reverse image prompts …