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V. Bühlmann, J. Orozco:
"Introduction, Conference Lecture: Mindset, Pentecost, Stopwatch: Online Sources or How To Recognize The Beginning And The End Of An Idea";
Talk: SOPHISTICATION: Rhetorical, Geometrical And Computational »Articulation«. Conference, TU Wien; 2017-12-07 - 2017-12-09.

When we ask IBM Watson online what it sees in Diego Velázquez´s Las Meninas, it is 66%
sure to recognize a `little theater´ with `female faces´ of age `18 to 34´. When we ask the same question to Michel Foucault, he sees a void, an empty space surrounded by objects pointing
to it. Even when both see elements in Velázquez´s work, they don´t treat it in the same
manner. Foucault is interested in what the elements can do and tell, locally and vividly, as the masterpiece is alive and talking to him. While Watson is interested in recognizing what the elements are, globally and taxonomically, as its success is measured by the accuracy with which it links them to global definitions.
This talk will address the information that circulates on web communities by sourcing and modeling it with instruments similar to Watson´s, but with interests similar to Foucault´s, that is, decoupling from recognition of global definitions and focusing on asking architectural questions. Showing the capacities and abilities that are gained with applications that `talk´ about architecture from the abundance of information.

http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/publik_267581.pdf