Nomadic Annotators

Under China’s “Data in the East, Computing in the West program” policy, Guizhou may in the future host numerous data centers built in valleys, with its abundant valley terrain potentially serving as training data for drones. Data annotators, wearing AR glasses, traverse nature to annotate data. As the infrastructure for the annotation system and the physical endpoint of cloud computing, Guizhou resembles a massive computing and storage stack. This project was inspired by Iris Long and Zike He’s research project “Under the Could” and Bingqing Xia’s study on digital labor.

Ary-Yue HUANG
Ary-Yue HUANG is a media arts practitioner and researcher whose current research focuses on agent-based art, including software agents and physical robots, with an interest in the performative aesthetics of artificial life. His previous artistic practice centred on speculative fiction, video, simulated imagery and machine learning. In recent years, his work has been shown at various international exhibitions and film festivals, including Re: Human 3t, Ars Electronica in Linz (Austria), Image Forum Festival (Japan), Slamdance Film Festival and GLAS Animation Festival (USA) as well as the Asia Digital Art Fair (China). His research has been published in SIGGRAPH 2024, ARTECH 2023, VISAP 2023 and VINCI 2023.