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The Uncertain Image (Paperback)
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Citizens of networked societies are almost incessantly accompanied
by ecologies of images. These ecologies of still and moving images
present a paradox of uncertainties emerging along with certainties.
Images appear more certain as the technical capacities that render
them visible increase. At the same time, images are touched by more
uncertainty as their numbers, manipulabilities, and contingencies
multiply. With the emergence of big data, the image is becoming a
dominant vehicle for the construction and presentation of the truth
of data. Images present themselves as so many promises of the
certainty, predictability, and intelligibility offered by data. The
focus of this book is twofold. It analyses the kinds of images
appearing today, showing how they are marked by a return to modern
photographic emphases on high resolution, clarity, and realistic
representation. Secondly, it discusses the ways in which the
uncertainty of images is increasingly underscored within such
reiterated emphases on allegedly certain visual truths. This often
involves renewed encounters with noise, grain, glitch, blur,
vagueness, and indistinctness. This book provides the reader with
an intriguing transdisciplinary investigation of the uncertainly
certain relation between the cultural imagination and the
techno-aesthetic regime of big data and ubiquitous computing. This
book was originally published as a special issue of Digital
Creativity.
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