The Perception Machine
Author: Zylinska, Joanna
ISBN: 9780262546836
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 05 Dec 2023
Pages: 286
Format: Paperback / softback
b>A provocative investigation of the future of photography and human perception in the age of AI./b>BR>BR>b>A provocative investigation of the future of photography and human perception in the age of AI./b>br>br>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-and the transformation of human perception by algorithmically driven images, from CGI to AI-i>The Perception Machine/i> 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 Vilem Flusser-Paul Virilio remix. Her "perception machine" names a technical universe of images and their infrastructures. But it also refers to a sociopolitical condition resulting from today's automation of vision, imaging-and imagination.br>br>Written by a theorist-practitioner, the book incorporates Zylinska's 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.
ISBN: 9780262546836
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 05 Dec 2023
Pages: 286
Format: Paperback / softback
b>A provocative investigation of the future of photography and human perception in the age of AI./b>BR>BR>b>A provocative investigation of the future of photography and human perception in the age of AI./b>br>br>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-and the transformation of human perception by algorithmically driven images, from CGI to AI-i>The Perception Machine/i> 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 Vilem Flusser-Paul Virilio remix. Her "perception machine" names a technical universe of images and their infrastructures. But it also refers to a sociopolitical condition resulting from today's automation of vision, imaging-and imagination.br>br>Written by a theorist-practitioner, the book incorporates Zylinska's 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.
