This collection examines how the networked image establishes new social practices for the user and presents new challenges for cultural practitioners engaged in making, curating, teaching, exhibiting, archiving and preserving born-digital objects.
The mode of vision and imaging, established through photography over the previous two centuries, has and continues to be radically reconfigured by a hybrid of algorithms, computing, programmed capture and display devices, and an array of online platforms. The image under these new conditions is filtered, fluid, fleeting, permeable, mobile and distributed and is changing our ways of seeing. The chapters in this volume are the outcome of research conducted at the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI) and its collaboration with The Photographers’ Gallery over the last ten years. The book's contributors investigate radical changes in the meanings and values of hybridised media in socio-technical networks and speak to the creeping automation of culture through applications of AI, social media platforms and the financialisation of data.
This interdisciplinary collection draws upon media and cultural studies, art history, art practice, photographic theory, user design, animation, museology and computer science as a way of making sense of the specific cultural consequences of the rapid succession of changes in image technologies and to bring the story up to date. It will be of particular interest to scholars and students of visual culture, media studies and photography.
Author(s): Andrew Dewdney, Katrina Sluis
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 248
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
Worlds
Times
Practices
Fields
Networks
Images
Knowledges
Post-Digital Culture
Visualities
Organisation of the Book
Part I: The Condition of the Networked Image
Part II: Computation, Software, Learning
Part III: Curating the Networked Image
Part IV: Digitisation and the Reconfiguration of the Archive
Critical Perspectives
References
Part I The Condition of the Networked Image
1 The Politics of the Networked Image: Representation and Reproduction
More Than Visual
The Networked Image
Bridging Worlds
The Smartphone
What Remains of the Image
Political Theory
Time Again
Trans-hypermedia
Closing
Notes
Bibliography
2 The Networked Image After Web 2.0: Flickr and the ‘Real-World’ Photography of the Dataset
Networked Image
Circulation
Photo-Sharing Communities
Financialisation
Dataset
Amateur Snapshot
Real-World Photography
Calculable Surface
Notes
Bibliography
3 Post-Capitalist Photography
Attention Economies
Critical Literacy
Post-Capitalist Photography
Photography After Capitalism
Global Challenges
Bibliography
Part II Computation, Software, Learning
4 The Computer Vision Lab: The Epistemic Configuration of Machine Vision
Experimental Practice in the Computer Vision Lab
Vision at Speed
Classification
Photographic Pipelines
The Social Ontology of the Computer Vision Lab
The Entanglement of the Lab and the Annotation Platform
Translation
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
5 Ways of Machine Seeing as a Problem of Invisual Literacy
Uses of Literacy
Invisualities
Notes
Bibliography
6 Soft Subjects: Hybrid Labour in Media Software
Where Does the Soft Subject Work?
How Does the Soft Subject Work?
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Part III Curating the Networked Image
7 The Paradoxes of Curating the Networked Image: Aesthetic Currents, Flows and Flaws
Introduction: Curating in an Overtly and Overly Curated Environment
The Politics and Aesthetics of the Networked Image: Framing Circulation
Flows and Blockages: This Image Is Not Available in Your Country
Aesthetic Currents and Flaws: The Museum of Internet (MoI) of Félix Magal and Emilie Gervais
Conclusion: The Paradoxes of Curating the Networked Image
Notes
References
8 Internet Liveness and the Art Museum
Introduction
Tate Live
BMW Tate Live Performance Room: What Happens When a Performance Becomes an Image Embedded in Software On a Screen
When the Online Is the (Only) Alternative
Notes
Bibliography
9 Screenshot Situations: Imaginary Realities of Networked Images
Introduction
Screenshot Situations
Histories of Screenshot Situations
Situated Screenshots and Their Resolutions
Desire and Automated Image
“The Conceptual Crisis of Private Property as a Crisis in Practice”
Drawing With Sound
Conclusion – Image Logistics
Notes
Bibliography
Part IV Digitisation and the Reconfiguration of the Archive
10 Networks of Care
The Paradox of Digital Sustainability
Care as a Conceptual Device and Practical Method
Framing a Network of Care
Network of Care as Art Project
Network of Care as an Artistic Preservation Approach
A Network of Care as a Proposition
A Network of Care, Or Preservation as an Evolving Process
Acknowledgement
Notes
Bibliography
11 Beyond the Screenshot: Interface Design and Data Protocols in the Net Art Archive
Introduction
Current Online Archive and Collection Systems Do Not Account for Processual and Networked Relations
Rhizome’s Online Archive of Net Art
Interface Design
Data Protocols in the ArtBase
Digital Infrastructure
Post-custodial, Networked Archives – New Approaches to Interface Design and Data Protocols
Infrastructural Inversion
Provenance-Driven Data Modelling
Model-Database-Interface (MDI) Framework
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
