Chroma Key Dreams: Algorithmic Visibility, Fleshy Images and Scenes of Recognition
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Chroma Key Dreams : Algorithmic Visibility, Fleshy Images and Scenes of Recognition. / Agostinho, Daniela.
I: Philosophy of Photography, Bind 9, Nr. 2, 2018, s. 131-155.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Chroma Key Dreams
T2 - Algorithmic Visibility, Fleshy Images and Scenes of Recognition
AU - Agostinho, Daniela
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The increasing pervasiveness of datafication across social life is significantly challenging the scope and meanings of visibility. How do new modes of data capture compel us to rethink the notion of visibility, no longer understood as an ocular-based perceptual field, but as a multifaceted site of power? Focusing in particular on technologies of algorithmic recognition, the article argues that in order to understand the broad stakes of visibility under algorithmic life, the intersection between algorithmic recognition and the notion of social recognizability needs to be further theorized. In dialogue with the work of Sondra Perry, and drawing on contributions from feminist and critical race theories, the article revisits theoretical debates on racialized visibility within photography and film to show how racializing processes are inscribed in digital and algorithmictechnologies. In reading through these debates, the article suggests that visibility, as a racial formation, is always already subjected to an algorithmic logic. Through the analysis of Sondra Perry’s work, the article sketches out a political ontology of the image premised on the intersection between computation and the markings of the flesh as a possible way to think through the stakes of visibility under algorithmic life.
AB - The increasing pervasiveness of datafication across social life is significantly challenging the scope and meanings of visibility. How do new modes of data capture compel us to rethink the notion of visibility, no longer understood as an ocular-based perceptual field, but as a multifaceted site of power? Focusing in particular on technologies of algorithmic recognition, the article argues that in order to understand the broad stakes of visibility under algorithmic life, the intersection between algorithmic recognition and the notion of social recognizability needs to be further theorized. In dialogue with the work of Sondra Perry, and drawing on contributions from feminist and critical race theories, the article revisits theoretical debates on racialized visibility within photography and film to show how racializing processes are inscribed in digital and algorithmictechnologies. In reading through these debates, the article suggests that visibility, as a racial formation, is always already subjected to an algorithmic logic. Through the analysis of Sondra Perry’s work, the article sketches out a political ontology of the image premised on the intersection between computation and the markings of the flesh as a possible way to think through the stakes of visibility under algorithmic life.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Sondra Perry
KW - algorithms
KW - blackness
KW - flesh
KW - opacity
KW - race
KW - recognition
KW - visibility
U2 - 10.1386/pop.9.2.131_1
DO - 10.1386/pop.9.2.131_1
M3 - Journal article
VL - 9
SP - 131
EP - 155
JO - Philosophy of Photography
JF - Philosophy of Photography
SN - 2040-3682
IS - 2
ER -
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