Operational Images: From the Visual to the Invisual

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61384984%3A51310%2F23%3AN0000157" target="_blank" >RIV/61384984:51310/23:N0000157 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/operational-images" target="_blank" >https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/operational-images</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5749/9781452970929" target="_blank" >10.5749/9781452970929</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Operational Images: From the Visual to the Invisual

Original language description

First introduced by the German filmmaker Harun Farocki, the term operational images defines the expanding field of machine vision. In this study, media theorist Jussi Parikka develops Farocki’s initial concept by considering the extent to which operational images have pervaded today’s visual culture, outlining how data technologies continue to develop and disrupt our understanding of images beyond representation. Charting the ways that operational images have been employed throughout a variety of fields and historical epochs, Parikka details their many roles as technologies of analysis, capture, measurement, diagramming, laboring, (machine) learning, identification, tracking, and destruction. He demonstrates how, though inextricable from issues of power and control, operational images extend their reach far beyond militaristic and colonial violence and into the realms of artificial intelligence, data, and numerous aspects of art, media, and everyday visual culture. Serving as an extensive guide to a key concept in contemporary art, design, and media theory, Operational Images explores the implications of machine vision and the limits of human agency. Through a wealth of case studies highlighting the areas where imagery and data intersect, this book gives unprecedented insight into the ever-evolving world of posthuman visuality.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

B - Specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60405 - Studies on Film, Radio and Television

Project

<a href="/en/project/GX19-26865X" target="_blank" >GX19-26865X: Operational Images and Visual Culture: Media Archaeological Investigations</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

ISBN

978-1-5179-1210-9

Number of pages

296

Publisher name

University of Minnesota Press

Place of publication

Minneapolis

UT code for WoS book

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