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Cultural Representations of Machine Vision

This Special Collection surveys how machine vision technologies are represented and narrated across different sociocultural domains. Machine vision technologies are increasingly relevant to public debates around surveillance, pandemic mitigation, automated driving, gender and racial discrimination, and more. Societies around the globe face practical and ethical questions about how these new technological assemblages should be evaluated, implemented and governed. With their anticipatory and speculative potential, cultural representations of machine vision play a key role in answering these questions. Our premise is that cultural production – including literature, art, cinema, video games, science fiction, memes, fandom and more – is a rich source for understanding the impact of machine vision technologies on society, as well as their potential future trajectory. What can we learn from how machine vision is represented, applied and discussed in digital art, video games, novels, movies, TV series, fan fiction, electronic literature, social media content and other aesthetically or culturally expressive genres? Contributors to this Special Collection will answer this question from a variety of perspectives. The Special Collection is edited by the team working on the 'Machine Vision in Everyday Life' ERC project, and gathers contributions developed during a series of workshops.

Editors: Jill Walker Rettberg (Guest Editor), Gabriele de Seta (Guest Editor), Marianne Gunderson (Guest Editor), Linda Kronman (Guest Editor)


Cultural Representations of Machine Vision

Machine Visions: Mapping Depictions of Machine Vision through Critical Image Synthesis
Machine Visions: Mapping Depictions of Machine Vision through Critical Image Synthesis

Richard Carter

2023-09-05 Volume 9 • Issue 2 • 2023

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Special Collection: Cultural Representations of Machine Vision

Pixel, Partition, Persona: Machine Vision and Face Recognition in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun
Pixel, Partition, Persona: Machine Vision and Face Recognition in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun

Tyne Daile Sumner

2023-09-28 Volume 9 • Issue 2 • 2023

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Hacking Surveillance Cameras, Tricking AI and Disputing Biases: Artistic Critiques of Machine Vision
Hacking Surveillance Cameras, Tricking AI and Disputing Biases: Artistic Critiques of Machine Vision

Linda Kronman

2023-10-18 Volume 9 • Issue 2 • 2023

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Machine Vision and Tagging Aesthetics: Assembling Socio-Technical Subjects through New Media Art
Machine Vision and Tagging Aesthetics: Assembling Socio-Technical Subjects through New Media Art

Nicola Bozzi

2023-10-30 Volume 9 • Issue 2 • 2023

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Special Collection: Cultural Representations of Machine Vision

Machinic Visibility in Platform Discourses: Ubiquitous Interfaces for Precarious Users
Machinic Visibility in Platform Discourses: Ubiquitous Interfaces for Precarious Users

Nuno Atalaia and Rianne Riemens

2023-11-08 Volume 9 • Issue 2 • 2023

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Special Collection: Cultural Representations of Machine Vision

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