Machines are becoming intelligent agents that read, organise and valorise images while taking decisions and performing actions that mirror the human.
In ‘Machine Vision’, we examine ways of seeing generated through the computational apparatus. From the mechanical eyes of drones, GoPro cameras or the indexed options of search engines, the ways that we conceive the world today are commonly affected by a machine’s decisive moment. But what are the politics behind machine optics and what are the challenges for photographic culture under conditions of algorithmic governance?