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The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future between the Eye and AI

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dc.creatorZylinska, Joanna
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-13T20:03:14Z
dc.date.available2024-05-13T20:03:14Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractWe 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—The 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 Vilém 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. 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.en
dc.identifier.doi10.7551/mitpress/14471.001.0001
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/22066
dc.identifier.isbnisbn:9780262376631
dc.identifier.urihttps://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546836/the-perception-machine/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/23422
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherThe MIT Press
dc.publisher.placeCambridge
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectPhotographyen
dc.subjectPerceptionen
dc.subjectAIen
dc.subjectImageen
dc.subject.ddcddc:780
dc.titleThe Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future between the Eye and AIde
dc.typebook
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeBook
local.coverpage2024-05-15T02:43:57
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546836/the-perception-machine/

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