We were looking at pictures in the past. Then, with the advent of computer vision and machine learning technologies, images began to look back at us. Created by the award-winning artist, director and thinker.
Our world today is constantly monitored by computer vision technology, with cameras and screens tracking our every move.Furthermore, generative AI is able to create an artificial world that is indistinguishable from reality, allowing us to explore it. Trevor Paglin embarks on a journey in search of ways and means to understand this new visual world. Instead of asking what these technologies “say” about the world, it teaches us to ask what they “do” and where these images come from.By exploring the esoteric worlds of psychological warfare operations, UFO photographs, magicians, and public relations experts, Paglen shows that this apparently strange world is more human, but far stranger, than we imagine.
