gOd, mOther and sOldier: A Story of Oppression, Told Through the Lens of AI

The authors present gOd, mOther and sOldier – Nowhere in Somewhere Series 2022, a work that was conceptualized and created by artist Jinjoon Lee and his TX Creative Media Lab at KAIST, and realized through the remote cooperation of eight local collaborators across Southeast Asia. We used artificial intelligence-based object detectors and sonification techniques in order to symbolize the voicelessness of those at the margin of society in Southeast Asia, in a work of media art. These algorithms and concepts, and the work as a whole artistically demonstrate how marginalized people are misrepresented and misunderstood when interpreted out of context.