Aesthetics Of Exclusion

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Which aesthetics do we associate with gentrification? StreetSwipe let’s the audience determine if they think a photo of a storefront of bar should be classified as ‚gentrified’. While swiping, different cities, streets, years and neighborhoods will be compared on a live webpage that functions as a scoreboard. The ‚subjective’ input of different groups of users will be used to train different computer models that can recognize and generate images that are perceived as gentrified.

13th October '19

News | 10th January '20

Wanted: intern

Aesthetics of Exclusion is looking for a pro-active intern. Primarily you will focus on visual research, developing and exploring different conceptual directions…

News | 12th December '19

Aesthetics of Exclusion at ThingsCon

Aesthetics of Exclusion will be part of ThingsCon 2019 Friday the 13th of December in Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam). ThingsCon is a…

News | 26th November '19

Like Market, Like Never Before

De Drie Wijzen uit Oost will be part of the exhibition 'Like Market, Like Never Before'.

‘dapper’ is pleased to invite you…

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14th August '19

When two StreeView cars almost kiss

Since 2005 several companies, such as Google, Microsoft, Baidu and Kakao (Daum), started to develop systems to digitally map urban and rural areas across the world, using various types of vehicles and cameras to create 360° views, creating a growing visual urban archive. In Amsterdam we stumbled across two StreetView…

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1st October '18

On Aesthetics of Exclusion

It is over a decade ago that Richard Florida introduced the “rise of the creative class”. If decaying cities wanted to survive, they had to open cool bars, shabby-chic coffee shops, and art venues that attract young, educated, and tolerant residents. Eventually, the mysterious alchemy of the creative economy would…

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