Cinema and Machine Vision Artificial Intelligence, Aesthetics and Spectatorship
Cinema and Machine Vision: Artificial Intelligence, Aesthetics and Spectatorship by Daniel Chávez Heras, published by Edinburgh University Press in 2024, explores the intricate relationship between machine vision and visual culture. This 224-page book delves into the aesthetic, epistemic, and ideological dimensions of films and television that utilize computer technology, offering a critical-technical perspective on the emerging role of artificial intelligence in shaping our understanding of visual media.
Readers will find a thorough examination of how AI influences the creation and perception of images, challenging conventional assumptions about machine-generated visuals. The book theorizes machine vision through various lenses, including aesthetics and film theory, while also engaging with applied machine learning research. It serves as a call for collaboration between film and media scholars and those in the fields of science and engineering, encouraging a deeper reflection on the implications of algorithmic governance in visual culture.
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Cinema and Machine Vision unfolds the aesthetic, epistemic, and ideological dimensions of machine-seeing films and television using computers. With its critical-technical approach, this book presents to the reader new problems that arise as AI becomes integral to visual culture. It theorises machine vision through a selection of aesthetics, film theory, and applied machine learning research, dispelling widely held assumptions about computer systems designed to watch and make images on our behalf. At its heart, Cinema and Machine Vision is an invitation for film and media scholars to critically engage with AI at a technical level, a prompt for scientists and engineers working with images and cultural data to critically reflect on where their assumptions about vision come from, and a joint recognition of the fruitful problems of working together to understand the algorithmic governance of the visual. Daniel Chávez Heras is a Lecturer in Digital Culture and Creative Computing at King’s College London.
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