[Commlist] New book – The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future between the Eye and AI (open access)

Joanna Zylinska  wanted to let you know that MIT Press has just 
published a new book which investigates the future of digital imaging 
and human perception in the age of AI, while trying to imagine ways of 
rendering a /better/ future.

The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future between the Eye and AI 
by Joanna Zylinska

Thanks to MIT Press’s Direct to Open program, /The Perception Machine 
/is freely available to download:

https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5687/The-Perception-MachineOur-Photographic-Future 
<https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5687/The-Perception-MachineOur-Photographic-Future>

Paper copies are also available:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546836/the-perception-machine/ 
<https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546836/the-perception-machine/>

About the book:

We are constantly photographing and being photographed while feeding 
machine learning databases with our data, which in turn is used to 
generate new images. Analyzing the transformation of photography by 
computation—and the transformation of human perception by 
algorithmically driven images, from CGI to AI—/The Perception Machine/ 
investigates what it means for us to live surrounded by image flows and 
machine eyes. In an astute and engaging argument, Joanna Zylinska brings 
together media theory and neuroscience in a Vilém Flusser–Paul Virilio 
remix. Her “perception machine” names a technical universe of images and 
their infrastructures. But it also refers to a sociopolitical condition 
resulting from today's automation of vision, imaging—and imagination.

Written by a theorist-practitioner, the book incorporates Zylinska's own 
art projects, some of which have been co-created with AI. The 
photographs, collages, films, and installations available as part of the 
book (and its companion website) provide a different mode of thinking 
about our technological futures, at a local as well as a planetary 
level. Offering provocative concepts such as eco-eco-punk, 
AUTO-FOTO-KINO, planetary micro-vision, loser images, and sensography, 
the book outlines an existential philosophy of messy media for a time 
when our practices of imaging and self-imaging are being radically 
redesigned. Importantly, it also offers a new vision of our future.

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