Gabriele de Seta er teknisk sett sosiolog. Han har en doktorgrad fra Hong Kong polytekniske universitet og var postdoktor ved Institutt for etnologi ved Academia Sinica i Taipei. Gabriele er for tiden postdoktor ved det ERC-finansierte prosjektet Machine Vision in Everyday Life, og ble i 2021 tildelt prisen for unge forskere i humanistiske fag ved Det humanistiske fakultet, UiB. 

Forskningsarbeidet hans, forankret i etnografisk engasjement på tvers av flere nettsteder, fokuserer på digitale mediepraksiser, sosiotekniske forviklinger og folkelig kreativitet i den kinesisktalende verden. Han er også interessert i eksperimentell musikk, ny mediekunst og samarbeidsflater mellom forskning og kreativ praksis.

Jeg har designet "Machine Vision"-modulen for bacheloremnet Critical Approaches to Technology and Society (høsten 2020) og undervist på masteremnet Key Theories in Digital Culture (høsten 2021).

Jeg holder jevnlig gjesteforelesninger og leder workshops ved internasjonale institusjoner. Jeg er for tiden biveileder for ph.d.-kandidat Marianne Gunderson og masterstudent på digital kultur, Marie Reike.

Vitenskapelig foredrag

• Seta, Gabriele de (2024). An algorithmic folklore: Vernacular creativity in the age of everyday automation. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2024). Popular culture in the digital age: Qualitative methods for the study of digital folklore. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2024). From ASCII greetings to synthetic livestreams: Three decades of Chinese digital folklore. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de; Shchetvina, Anya (2024). Imagining machine vision: four visual registers from the Chinese AI industry . (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2024). Philosophical zombies, stochastic parrots, masked shoggoths: New ethnographic interlocutors? . (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2024). Global automated futures: Promissory narratives in the Chinese AI industry . (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2024). When is a field?. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2024). An algorithmic folklore: The mutual shaping of vernacular creativity and everyday automation. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2024). Thousand-mile eyes & ten thousand images: Machine vision in Chinese everyday life. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2024). Beyond hallucinations & dreams: Experimental approaches to generative AI models. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2024). Just add more layers: Metaphors of depth in machine learning. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2024). Algorithmic folklore: What is it, and how to study it. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2024). Algorithmic creativity. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2024). Fake foreigners: The geopolitics of synthetic media on Chinese short video platforms. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2023). Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2023). Latent China: An experiment in synthetic ethnography. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2023). From thousand-mile lenses to super VR invincible infrared X-ray glasses: A century of machine vision in Chinese science fiction. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2023). Spiritual pollution: A decade of Chinese digital folklore. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2023). QR codes: The global making of an infrastructural gateway. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2022). China’s machine vision vernaculars. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de; Shchetvina, Anya (2022). Imagining machine vision: Aesthetics of computational sensing from the Chinese AI industry. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2022). A ‘next-generation internet’: How Chinese tech companies imagine the metaverse. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2022). “Since I can’t go to China”: A digital ethnography primer. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2022). From 'thousand-mile lenses' to 'super VR invincible infrared X-ray glasses': Machine vision in Chinese science fiction. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2022). Deepfaking myself as a digital ethnographic method. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2021). Vernacular obfuscation. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2021). The circulation and governance of deepfakes in China. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2021). Wisdom + ability: on Chinese discourses around artificial intelligence, algorithms, and "smart" technologies. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2021). Ethnography, postdigital: Platforms, algorithms, and automation. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de; Voci, Paola; Yin, Yiyi (2021). Apertures #2: Paola Voci & Yiyi Yin. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de; Heinrich, Ari Larissa; Zhang, Dino Ge (2021). Apertures #1: Ari Larissa Heinrich & Dino Ge Zhang. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de; Hagerty, Alexa; Ahmed, Shazeda et al. (2021). Apertures #5: Alexa Hagerty, Shazeda Ahmed & Vidushi Marda. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2021). Machine vision in Chinese everyday life. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2021). Situating sinofuturism: Techno-orientalist fantasies, digital arms races, and chronopolitical othering. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2021). Ethnographic approaches to digital folklore. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2021). Matrix barcodes, swapped faces and thousand-mile eyes: Machine vision in Chinese everyday life. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2021). Ethnographic approaches to digital folklore. (ekstern lenke)
• Rettberg, Jill Walker; de Seta, Gabriele; Brock, André (2020). Situating data cultures and infrastructures: André Brock, Gabriele de Seta and Jill Walker Rettberg. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2020). Gateways, sieves, and domes: On the infrastructural topology of the Chinese stack. (ekstern lenke)

Faglig foredrag

• Seta, Gabriele de (2024). Philosophical zombies, stochastic parrots, masked shoggoths: Making sense of LLM folklore. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2024). 'Shaking the black box': Creative research approaches to generative models. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2024). Algorithmic, augmented, automated: Ethnography after the digital. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2023). Automating conspiracy: Opaque intersections of artificial intelligence and China. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2023). Lies of digital ethnography. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2022). Imaginaries of artificial intelligence and machine vision in China. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2022). On infrastructural abstraction: Models, parameters, algorithms. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2022). Imagi(ni)ng machine vision: An industry walkthrough. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2022). Sociotechnical imaginaries of artifice & intelligence. (ekstern lenke)

Rapport

• Karaboga, Murat; Frei, Nula; Puppis, Manuel et al. (2024). Deepfakes und manipulierte Realitäten: Technologiefolgenabschätzung und Handlungsempfehlungen für die Schweiz. (ekstern lenke)
• Rettberg, Jill Walker; Gunderson, Marianne; Kronman, Linda Maria Jessica et al. (2024). Machine vision in everyday life: Final report. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig artikkel

• Seta, Gabriele de (2024). From ASCII lanterns to synthetic livestreams: Three decades of Chinese digital folklore. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele; Pohjonen, Matti; Knuutila, Aleksi (2024). Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2024). Synthetic probes: A qualitative experiment in latent space exploration. (ekstern lenke)
• Gunderson, Marianne; Solberg, Ragnhild; Kronman, Linda Maria Jessica et al. (2023). Machine vision situations: Tracing distributed agency. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2023). Digital Depth: A Volumetric Speculation. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele; Shchetvina, Anya (2023). Imagining machine vision: Four visual registers from the Chinese AI industry. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2023). QR code: The global making of an infrastructural gateway. (ekstern lenke)
• Rettberg, Jill Walker; Kronman, Linda Maria Jessica; Solberg, Ragnhild et al. (2022). Representations of Machine Vision Technologies in Artworks, Games and Narratives: Documentation of a Dataset. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2021). Tres mentiras de la etnografía digital. (ekstern lenke)
• Zhang, Ge; Seta, Gabriele de (2021). Introduction: ASIA.LIVE: Inaugurating livestream studies in Asia. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2021). Gateways, sieves and domes: On the infrastructural topology of the Chinese stack. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2021). Huanlian, or changing faces: Deepfakes on Chinese digital media platforms. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2021). Scaling the scene: Experimental music in Taiwan. (ekstern lenke)
• Conn, Virginia L.; Seta, Gabriele de (2021). Sinofuturism(s). (ekstern lenke)
• Abidin, Crystal; de Seta, Gabriele (2020). Private messages from the field: Confessions on digital ethnography and its discomforts. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2020). Sociality, circulation, transaction: WeChat's infrastructural affordances . (ekstern lenke)
• Stevens, Quentin; de Seta, Gabriele (2020). Must Zhongzheng fall? Varied responses to memorial statues of Taiwan’s former dictator. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2020). Three lies of digital ethnography. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel

• Seta, Gabriele de (2024). An algorithmic folklore: Vernacular creativity in times of everyday automation. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2024). Ethnographic approaches to digital folklore. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2023). Let a hundred sinofuturisms bloom. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2021). The politics of muhei: Ethnic humor and Islamophobia on Chinese social media. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2021). The Bloomsbury handbook of the anthropology of sound. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2021). A “no-venue underground”: Making experimental music around Hong Kong’s lack of performance spaces. (ekstern lenke)

Intervju

• de Seta, Gabriele (2024). Algorithmic folklore [interview with Gabriele de Seta]. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2024). Reimagining AI - Algorithmic Folklore: How We Imagine AI. (ekstern lenke)
• Rettberg, Jill Walker; Seta, Gabriele de; Ingvild, Hauglid et al. (2021). Maskinsyn: føler du deg overvåket?. (ekstern lenke)

Populærvitenskapelig artikkel

• de Seta, Gabriele (2024). Ball-ache, cow pussy, and dick hair: Vulgarity in Chinese internet language. (ekstern lenke)
• Seta, Gabriele de (2021). APAIC Report on the Holocode Crisis. (ekstern lenke)

Leder

• Berti, Paolo; de Vincentis, Stefania; de Seta, Gabriele (2023). Into the megadungeon: An introduction. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2023). China’s digital infrastructure: Networks, systems, standards. (ekstern lenke)

Museumsutstilling

• Rettberg, Jill Walker; Thorsen, Åshild Sunde Feyling; Kronman, Linda et al. (2021). Maskinsyn: Ditt digitale liv - Smart eller overvåket?. (ekstern lenke)

Anmeldelse

• Seta, Gabriele de (2021). Blockchain chicken farm: And other stories of tech in China’s countryside, by Xiaowei Wang (Book review). (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2020). Zoning China: Online Video, Popular Culture, and the State, by Luzhou Li. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2020). Ambient media: Japanese atmospheres of self, by Paul Roquet (Book review). (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2020). Information fantasies: Precarious mediation in postsocialist China, by Xiao Liu. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2020). Digital China’s informal circuits: Platforms, labour and governance, by Elaine Jing Zhao. (ekstern lenke)

Kronikk

• de Seta, Gabriele (2020). Sinofuturism as inverse orientalism: China’s future and the denial of coevalness. (ekstern lenke)
• de Seta, Gabriele (2020). Optical governance: The roles of machine vision in China’s epidemic response. (ekstern lenke)

Se en full oversikt over publikasjoner i Cristin

Mine publikasjoner er listet på Google Scholar, og de fleste er tilgjengelige via lenker på min nettside.

Jeg har nylig skrevet om deepfakes på kineisiske sosiale media-plattformer, den visuelle estetikken til Kinas maskinsyndindustri og den sosiotekniske historien til QR-koden.