For Ever More Images? [electronic resource].

Onassis Foundation 2020

Open access content

In the present moment, we use machines to capture almost everything we see; at the same time, we are constantly being photographed by machines without our consent or awareness. Our faces, emotions, habits, beliefs, and data are being collected, stored, and valued in massive and invisible ways, serving warfare, surveillance, global capital, and risk management systems whose aim is to predict the future and produce profit. Our world sometimes feels like a crystal ball, absorbing its surroundings and projecting its predetermined plan back at us. Meanwhile, digital images have become both omnipresent and invisible, rendering inward reflection difficult and threatening to mute the transformative power of the human imagination. In response, For Ever More Images? gathers an interdisciplinary group of artists, thinkers, and activists to interrogate the all-seeing eyes and ever-multiplying black boxes that increasingly govern our lives. In the face of such dire conditions, this digital catalog gestures towards new possibilities that these same technologies open up. Radical uses of the image remain possible – from collective historical witnessing, to contested testimony, and evolving counter surveillance practices – which hold out the promise of critical understanding, social engagement, and action.
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Artificial intelligence
Electronic surveillance
Photography, Artistic
Remote-sensing images

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Yorgos Karailias
Yorgos Prinos
Pasqua Vorgia
Grid Office
Alexander Strecker
Christos Carras
Eduardo Cadava
Jean-Luc Nancy
Tom Cohen
Rosalind Morris
Zahid Chaudhary
Thomas Keenan
Sharon Sliwinski
Penelope Umbrico
Jon Rafman
Harun Farocki
Adam Broomberg
Oliver Chanarin
Forensic Architecture
Rabih Mroué
Natalie Bookchin
Mónika Sziládi
Maria Mavropoulou
Cameron-James Wilson
Panos Mazarakis
James Bridle
Liam Young
Joan Fontcuberta
Taryn Simon
Vassilis Douvitsas