Yichun Yao: Coded Feelings in a digital world
17 July 2025 • Mark Westall
Yichun Yao is a London-based artist whose work explores the emotional impact of emerging technologies, such as AI, algorithms, and big data.
Tag: Big data
Rise of the racist robots – how AI is learning all our worst impulses
8 August 2017 • Syndicate
There is a saying in computer science: garbage in, garbage out. When we feed machines data that reflects our prejudices, they mimic them – from antisemitic chatbots to racially biased software. Does a horrifying future await people forced to live at the mercy of algorithms?
Where the internet lives: the artist who snooped on Google’s data farm
5 February 2015 • Staff
Welcome to the end of the information superhighway – a ‘data farm’ in the midwest. When Google refused to let artist John Gerrard photograph it, he hired a chopper and decided to beat them at their own game