Jussi Parikka is professor of digital aesthetics and culture at Aarhus University as well as professor at University of Southampton and visiting professor at FAMU, Prague. He is author of A Geology of Media,Insect Media (both from Minnesota), Digital Contagions, and What Is Media Archaeology?
"What is the work of the image in an age of algorithmic production?
The very idea of an 'image' is bound inextricably with how we make
and reproduce them, with who and what interprets them, and for what
ends. What happens when images pass beyond representation and even
human visual senses? What is visual culture when most optical
traces are generated by and for machines to interpret and
operationalize? Jussi Parikka's masterful and concise book is a
decisive moment in the study of 'ways of seeing' that goes beyond
the standard anthropocentric tales of art history. Refreshingly, it
forces us to see seeing in a whole new light."-Benjamin Bratton,
University of California, San Diego "This book offers a
crucial study of the ‘operational image,’ revealing the complex
relations that shape and surface in images that may not appear to
be very interesting. Jussi Parikka’s evocative writing and juggling
of topics-from artificial intelligence to remote sensing to
lidar-is bound to spark thought and action in media studies and
beyond."-Lisa Parks, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Rich yet understated, Jussi Parikka’s Operational Images
encourages reflection on the history and politics of technical
image-making more broadly." –Brooklyn Rail
"One of the first full-length accounts of the precarious status of
the image in an age of ubiquitous AI and machine learning." -Film
Quarterly
"Operational Images: From the Visual to the Invisual is an
extraordinary map of the present that revolves around the status of
algorithmic images, their philosophical potential, and their
economic and political role." -Cinema & CIE
"The diverse and radically changing dynamics of the image and its
clusters are traced in a captivating journey that situates their
actionable and gravitating qualities in a very contemporary vision.
[Operational Images] traces this essential trajectory in detail,
becoming essential itself." -Neural
"Parikka understands images mediated by computer technologies not
as images but instead as configurations of data and 'statistical
distributions of patterns' with a graphical interface. This is an
essential point that more people need to understand. In starting
with it, Parikka offers a valuable account of what happens when
images are homogenized as data and put to work to reshape the
world." -Art in America "The book offers a formidable
synthesis of large swaths of scholarships in media theory, visual
studies, and critical AI studies." -International Journal of
Communication "Operational Images is an important
intervention in the study of how images of the past and those of
the present have become the kind of data that have been used to
convincingly empower the social, political and economic
institutions that shape possibilities. Its great virtue is that the
alternative it proposes offers a pathway to resistance." -Leonardo
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