ALGOFOLK
Gabriele de Seta leads the project Algorithmic folklore: The mutual shaping of vernacular creativity and automation.
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How do algorithms and everyday creative practices shape one another? Algorithms are complex, and – like everything we cannot understand easily – humans create stories and myths around how these modern machines work.
Gabriele de Seta is awarded a Starting Grant by the Trond Mohn Research Foundation, which now gives him the opportunity to create a research group to investigate these questions.
"I think there is a lot of misunderstandings, and also interesting understandings, that we need to take seriously," said de Seta on the at the Universty Aula for the grant celebration.
"Specialists know what algorithms are, but people don't necessarily know much. I want to know how they create stories, narratives, and what I call algorithmic folklore, to understand these complex technical objects."
