# Linnaeus Pip

> Fuck Linnaeus; Fuck Haeckl; Fuck Google

- Canonical URL: https://artificial-images.com/project/linnaeus-pip-machine-learning-eugenics/
- Year: 2021
- Medium and tools: AI, Generative AI, Moving Image, Video Art, StyleGAN, Custom Models
- Pathways: [Models Made Here](https://artificial-images.com/pathways/models-made-here.md)
- Media: 0 images, 1 video
- Artist: Derrick Schultz

## About this work

1752 frames@24fps, silent. 2021

"i would go further than this to say that large AI models are by definition technologies of categorization and control" -Everest Pipkin

Zorns Dilemma. Cinema’s magic number. Fuck Linnaeus. Fuck Haeckl. Fuck Google.

Created by Derrick Schultz; additional dataset production by Lia Coleman, Juli Odomo, and fiverr users designermdshafi, mdmonirmiah, asifhassanantue, and nataliasaracco

Included in the [CVPR 2021 Computer Vision Art Gallery](https://computervisionart.com/pieces2021/linnaeus-pip/)

## Media

Videos cannot be watched by text agents; each entry gives its alt text, caption, Vimeo title and duration, and a description of the video.

### 1. Video `linnaeus-pip`
- Description: Film of various Western-drawn botanical illustrations
- Caption: *Linnaeus Pip*
- Source: Vimeo video 524010729
- Vimeo title: Linnaeus Pip
- Duration: 1 min 10 s
- Video description: A 73-second silent film (1752 frames at 24 fps, 2021) about science's connections to biological racism, from the first classification systems to machine learning's current flirting with techno-eugenics.
- Watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/524010729
- View on the page: https://artificial-images.com/project/linnaeus-pip-machine-learning-eugenics/?media=linnaeus-pip

## External links

- [CVPR 2021 Computer Vision Art Gallery](https://computervisionart.com/pieces2021/linnaeus-pip/)

## Related

### Pathways

- [Models Made Here](https://artificial-images.com/pathways/models-made-here.md): Projects built around trained, adapted, or artist-specific generative models.

### Tags

AI, Generative AI, Moving Image, Video Art, StyleGAN, Custom Models

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