OVERVIEW

An Image is a representative of art and photography in general of communication and expression through the medium of technology. Additionally a reference that wasn’t mentioned was ‘The Ghost At Hampton Court Palace’ image. Another reference in this lecture was a book called ‘The Reconfigured eye’ by W.J.T Mitchel. 

Question whilst recapping the previous weeks we asked ourselves this:

What do images want from us?

How do they transform in social and technology mediums?

What role do they play in historical terms?

Then lastly what do pictures want?

Furthermore, other photographers/artists we looked at were Oskar Wild ’the portrait which goes ugly’ and Barbra Kruger where the images speak for themselves and propaganda. 

From this, in the lecture we again looked at Trevor Paglen ’ Invisible Images (Your pictures are looking at you)’ article. In conjunction to this is that we also looked at one of his other photographs which was called ‘Lake Tenaya, 2016’. Evidently, whilst looking at the image and the article we compared them to the ever changing AI within social media such as Facebook for example. Social media is where photography and text joins together to communicate towards or for the audience. So a quote that says; ” the point here is that if we understand the invisible world of machine- machines visual culture”.  To me it suggests that there is an understanding of the unknown within technology today and how it is advancing and spying on us to just reproduce and recall all our personal data.

It’s all over the place, however, these are some of the notes I took to summarise the weeks’ lectures on photography and technology as well as what questions we see ourselves seeking from the past, present and the future.

‘The intelligent image’ is the traditional technology of AI ( artificial intelligence) and in the book of ‘Ceci n’est une pomme’ by Kate Crawford.  Evidently this essay suggests that the intelligent image is a relationship between the image and the text which accompanies such a medium of sharing and communication. However within this essay suggests that photography is like a suicide machine in the technological era that we are presently in. Further more AI technology uses tags and labels from images on the net. According to the essay and article linked below these images are to clarify humans by their race, gender, emotions, ability, sexuality and personality. So they can filter and separate the necessary content to each user whether it is on the mobile phones, computers or cctv to catch the good and bad within this global society. It also broadens, in my opinion, a way that society judges the characteristic of each human by using technology and photography to represent and communicate to a broader diverse range. This could be ethnical assumptions as well as an emotional state of mind.

Additionally, the political intervention of AI and technology within photography of surveillance suggests that there is some sort of  non diversity within the general society and this could be because of the underlining racism, sexism and discrimination that each country especially ours endures in everyday life.

Moving on from what I have learnt in my lecture of  the intelligent image, there was further and additional reading to do and the link and short summary here https://www.excavating.ai/ 

I learned and understood that within this article the  images are a technological invention, which is evolving every few minutes  introducing new information and data from one or multiple sources by surveilling each and every one of us. It has also divided us into sectors by figuring out which economic background and class we are in. It rearrange and arranges us into technological sectors. Other than this the rest is pretty similar from what I have been discussing at the beginning of the blog.

In conclusion, the amount of what we see as a record is different to ( and we are not aware of) what significance it draws upon in the technological world, and how we are watched by robots each day of our lives.

The non human image suggests that not inherently we as humans can take photos without a cause or site however the definition on non human photography suggests that it is less to do with the camera than to do with photography it self. This can influence the mobility of image whilst it utilize us by controlling us however this could be a good thing due to be able to getting activism out there in the world. A non human image or photography as one may say is an adoption of a more difficult and arguable complexity which is multifaceted in its treatment of photography as a whole.

Whilst looking at the books and the website links which are suggested in the lecture earlier this morning I can see there is multiple approach to this which includes that photographers are prone to change due to ones environment and what life style we have. This also contributes an understanding on how photography is ready to change the world in the digital age and beyond the post image.

Reading the article the Post Image I found a quote which helped me understand the digital non human image and what we live in amongst in todays society. Evidently the quotes states ‘between data and algorithms, but also the relation between human and non human agents of process involving an element of vision’. To me suggest there is the unconscious link with humanity as whole and digitality of the future of photography and surveillance in our everyday lives.

Additionally, I choose the image above due to the idea of an ever changing environment metaphorically and physically in the world eco system and in the future photography and security. I felt that this photograph represents evolution well and links to the quote i pulled out of the article which is stated above.