The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future Between The Eye And Ai

A provocative investigation of the future of photography and human perception in the age of AI. We are constantly photographing and being photographed while feeding machine learning databases with our data, which in turn is used to generate new images. Analyzing the transformation of photography by computation??nd the transformation of human perception by algorithmically driven images, from CGI to AI??he Perception Machine investigates what it means for us to live surrounded by image flows and machine eyes. In an astute and engaging argument, Joanna Zylinska brings together media theory and neuroscience in a Vil?m Flusser??aul Virilio remix. Her ??erception machine??names a technical universe of images and their infrastructures. But it also refers to a sociopolitical condition resulting from today?? automation of vision, imaging??nd imagination. Written by a theorist-practitioner, the book incorporates Zylinska?? own art projects, some of which have been co-created with AI. The photographs, collages, films, and installations available as part of the book (and its companion website) provide a different mode of thinking about our technological futures, at a local as well as a planetary level. Offering provocative concepts such as eco-eco-punk, AUTO-FOTO-KINO, planetary micro-vision, loser images, and sensography, the book outlines an existential philosophy of messy media for a time when our practices of imaging and self-imaging are being radically redesigned. Importantly, it also offers a new vision of our future.

• | Author: Joanna Zylinska
• | Publisher: The Mit Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 07, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0262546833
• | ISBN-13: 9780262546836