Cinema and Machine Vision: Artificial Intelligence, Aesthetics and Spectatorship

Cinema and Machine Vision explores the aesthetic, epistemic, and ideological dimensions of machine-seeing films and television, challenging assumptions about computer systems designed to watch and make images. It invites film and media scholars to engage with AI at a technical level, scientists and engineers to reflect on their assumptions, and recognizes the fruitful problems of working together to understand the algorithmic governance of the visual.

Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 31 May 2024
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Cinema and Machine Vision explores the aesthetic, epistemic, and ideological dimensions of machine-seeing films and television using computers. It presents critical-technical approaches to AI's integration into visual culture, theorizing machine vision through aesthetics, film theory, and applied machine learning research. The book challenges widely held assumptions about computer systems designed to watch and make images on our behalf. It invites film and media scholars to engage with AI at a technical level, prompts scientists and engineers working with images and cultural data to reflect on their assumptions about vision, and recognizes the fruitful problems of working together to understand the algorithmic governance of the visual.

Weight: 516g
Dimension: 161 x 241 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399514712