Main entry:

Steyerl, Hito, author.

Title & Author:

Medium hot : images in the age of heat / Hito Steyerl.

Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2025.

Description:

178 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
'The hardest part' : statistical image-making and war economies -- Burnt-out images : a thermodyanmical turn -- Medium hot : the political economy of entropy -- Knuckleporn or phocomelia : genAI's dialectics of enlightenment -- Mean images -- The digital rift : from poor images to power images -- We didn't start the fire : physical and digital pipelines / with Gago Gagoshidze and Miloš Trakilović -- Who does the world belong to? AI, art and common sense -- Walk the walk : beyond blockchain Orientalism -- Roko's basilisk : artificial stupidities and existential risk -- Twenty-one art worlds : a game map / with Department of Decentralization and GPT-3.

Summary:

What is the future of the image in the age of climate change and artificial intelligence? Hito Steyerl explores how AI, the use of large language models and the algorithmic creation of imagery transform our understanding of the world. She argues that such practices cannot be divorced from the economic and political conditions of the time. Medium Hot is a collection of meditations on the limits of art and technology, probing the manufacture and distribution of images in the age of AI and climate change. Steyerl asks whether art can be made not only by machines but for machines. She argues against the production of images that heat up the planet, disenfranchise workers and fuel the arms trade, and questions whether such creations can even be called art. --Adapted from jacket.

ISBN:

9781804298022 (hardback)
1804298026
(ebook)
9781804298053
ePub ebook
9781804298046

Subject:

Art and technology History 21st century.
Art and society History 21st century.
Artificial intelligence Environmental aspects.
Artificial intelligence Moral and ethical aspects.
Art et technologie Histoire 21e siècle.
Art et société Histoire 21e siècle.
Intelligence artificielle Aspect de l'environnement.
Intelligence artificielle Aspect moral.
ART / General.

Form/genre:

Essays.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 321484
Call No.: 321484
Copy: 1
Status: Available