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NEW! - SE18, SE12, SE25, SE9, BR1, BR3, SW4, SW8, SW16Īll orders over £75 have free priority shipping (UK Mainland only, excluding Scottish Highlands, Islands and Northern Ireland). For more information, please read our blog. We're continuing to add new postcodes according to demand. Postcodes that qualify for local delivery include those close to our Peckham Rye/East Dulwich shop: SE1, SE5, SE6, SE11, SE15, SE17, SE19, SE20, SE21, SE22, SE23, SE24, SE26, SE27, SW2 and SW9 and those close to our Deptford shop: SE3, SE4, SE6, SE7, SE8, SE10, SE13, SE14 and SE16. We hand-deliver all of our local orders in our 100% electric, zero emissions van! If your postcode is within our delivery areas, this option will be shown at the checkout. DAD’s Alexander Martos called this phenomenon “re-socialising of arts via natural language processing” or rather “re-a-socialising” since it uncovers asocial societal tendencies and (re-?) introduces them to the world of fine arts.This delivery option is free for online orders of £40 and over for customers in postcodes closest to our Peckham and Deptford shops (see below). This is of course a direct result of the biases inherent to the word embedding model. As can be seen above, the most similar keywords to “Homosexuality” are “Rape”, “Religion”, “Violence” and “Islam” (all translated from German). OFAI´s Brigitte Krenn found it interesting how the very reglemented and almost scientific language in Belvedere’s keywords (stemming from the Iconclass project) is contrasted with everyday language via usage of word embedding. The word embedding model has been trained on the Wikipedia and Common Crawl corpus, which helps explaining the replication of very common and persisting prejudice in our society. In the above query with the word “Homosexuality” the most similar word out of 22 million terms in the word embedding model is “Paedophilia”, one of the worst prejudice against homosexual people. In the ensuing discussion of results it was found remarkable how machine learning via word embedding replicates existing biases and prejudice in the society. In fourth position is an etching with the only keyword ‘Vulture’, which is semantically close to ‘Angel’, ‘Air’ and ‘Death’ of the ending artwork. The second artwork in the pathway is a relief showing ‘Christ’, while the third is a painting tagged with ‘Death’ and ‘Skeleton’, hence already semantically closer to the topics of ‘Martyrdom’, ‘Suffering’ and ‘Death’ of the end artwork. The above exemplary result starts with a sculpture with keywords ‘Resurrection’ and ‘Christ’ where the painting in the end position has keywords around the topic of ‘Death’ and ‘Martyrdom’. All images by Belvedere, Vienna, Austria ( CC BY-SA 4.0).
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This is used to embed keywords of Belvedere´s online fine arts collection and obtain pathways through the resulting semantic space. Therefore he used word embedding, which encodes semantic similarities between words by modelling the context to their neighboring words in a large training text corpus. In his work, Arthur Flexer is more interested in finding pathways of the semantic meaning of works of art rather than just their visual features. The presented work is inspired by the project ‘ X Degrees of Separation‘ by ‘Google Arts and Culture’, which explores the “hidden paths through culture” by analyzing visual features of artworks to find pathways between any two artifacts through a chain of artworks. DAD´s Arthur Flexer gave a semi-virtual lecture on “Discovering X Degrees of Keyword Separation in a Fine Arts Collection” at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence ( OFAI, ).