photographies, Call for Papers: Special Issue – Machine Vision in Context: Politics and Practices of Computational Seeing
Abstract Deadline: July 7, 2021
Paper Deadline: May 1, 2022
This special issue will bring together interdisciplinary scholarship that engages critically with the evolving, recursive interrelations between machine vision and photography.
his special issue will thus be concerned with examining the multiple challenges this suite of evolving technologies poses for the continued salience of the photographic, the contemporary politics of image making, distribution, ordering and interpretation, and the practices of personal and artistic photography. How are different forms of machine vision shaping practices of looking, seeing, sensing, and witnessing associated with photography? What are the historical continuities and discontinuities between imaginaries and technical aspects of machine vision in photographic practices? How and in what ways are historically embedded forms of visual inequalities being replicated or disrupted by computerized modes of seeing? How is machine vision being appropriated for social justice? How have artists developed critiques of machine vision? What roles are artistic interventions playing in the public understanding of machine vision?
The editors seek substantial contributions (4,000-6,000 words) that engage with these issues and questions. Please submit abstracts (350-500 words max ) to: handm@queensu.ca and ashley.scarlett@auarts.ca. Abstracts and papers will have the benefit of full peer review before acceptance. For more information about the special issue and its particular topics of interest, visit ArtHist.net post. For current and past issues, visit photographies.