Montage, Memories, Machine
This paper explores the entanglement of human perception and machine operations in contemporary photographic culture, using montage as a conceptual resource to interrogate our understanding of photography in the context of computational vision and algorithmic culture. It takes as a key example the...
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Simon Dawes, Centre d’histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines (CHCSC), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)
2024-06-01
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This paper explores the entanglement of human perception and machine operations in contemporary photographic culture, using montage as a conceptual resource to interrogate our understanding of photography in the context of computational vision and algorithmic culture. It takes as a key example the ‘Memories’ feature of the Apple Photos application, in which ‘For You’ albums organize and (re)present images from a personal camera roll back to the viewer-user as a slideshow montage. Through a combination of technical analysis and auto-ethnography, it argues that the relation between stillness and motion in this instantiation of montage offers a productive way of understanding what it means to ‘see photographically’ within the contemporary socio-technical assemblages that comprise digital photography.
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| spelling | doaj-art-1dd3b59627a14d7e9f09ed71cd4861762025-08-20T03:51:29ZengSimon Dawes, Centre d’histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines (CHCSC), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)Media Theory2557-826X2024-06-018110.70064/mt.v8i1.1071Montage, Memories, MachineJasmin Pfefferkorn This paper explores the entanglement of human perception and machine operations in contemporary photographic culture, using montage as a conceptual resource to interrogate our understanding of photography in the context of computational vision and algorithmic culture. It takes as a key example the ‘Memories’ feature of the Apple Photos application, in which ‘For You’ albums organize and (re)present images from a personal camera roll back to the viewer-user as a slideshow montage. Through a combination of technical analysis and auto-ethnography, it argues that the relation between stillness and motion in this instantiation of montage offers a productive way of understanding what it means to ‘see photographically’ within the contemporary socio-technical assemblages that comprise digital photography. https://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/1071Algorithmic curationComputational photographyMontageArchive |
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