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How Google and Instagram think about the future of photos
An article from the NYT Privacy Project on the The Racist History of Facial Recognition. Starting with early scientific facial...
The Entasis of Elon Musk
"The idea that an architectural rendering can be ‘real’ or ‘fake’ involves a transference of the logic of one medium—building—to the logic of another—drawing. Architectural rendering has always exploited the potentials of the page or canvas where money, knowledge, taste or gravity proved prohibitive..."
Rendering the Desert of The Real
The artist and designer Tobias Revell has been invited by The Photographers' Gallery digital programme to curate a strand for Unthinking Photography on the theme of photography, rendering and CGI and their effect in architecture and the built environment. In this text the curator of the series introduces the topic through a short history of image manipulation and the emergence of CGI technologies.
‘Hooded Prisoner’ in 3D – a discussion between Julian Stallabrass and Alan Warburton
A 3D model depicting a hooded prisoner from Abu Ghraib, was the starting point for a discussion between the artist Alan Warburton and the art historian and curator Julian Stallabrass.
We present a method and application for animating a human subject from a single photo. E.g., the character can walk out, run,...
We knew we needed to collect a data set that has far more images than we have ever had before, perhaps thousands of times more,...
Colorful Image Colorization Richard Zhang, Phillip Isola, Alexei A. Efros, 2016 Given a grayscale photograph as input,...
Light Pattern (Daniel Temkin, 2014) is a programming language where one communicates with the computer through photographs...
Nonhuman Photography: An Interview with Joanna Zylinska [PART I]
Andrew Dewdney interviews Joanna Zylinska for Unthinking Photography, on the occasion of her recent publication ‘Nonhuman Photography’ (MIT Press, 2017). We are publishing here two excerpts from the conversation while the full interview is available to download as a pdf. In this first part, the discussion unpacks the notion of the nonhuman in image culture.