The Networked Image in Post-Digital Culture

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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. 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