Machine Visions, Hybrid Painting, and the Life of Images: Reading Joanna Zylinska
Introduction Joanna Zylinska’s AI Art: Machine Visions and Warped Dreams (2020) offers a sharp and critical entry point into understanding how artificial intelligence reshapes not only the production of images but also our perception of them. Far from the usual binary debate about whether machines can be “creative,” Zylinska reframes the conversation to ask what […]
Thomas Nail and the Image in Motion: A Kinetic Philosophy of the Visual
At a time when digital images multiply endlessly and their circulation exceeds our ability to absorb them, philosopher Thomas Nail offers a radical idea: images are not static objects or mere representations—they are material processes in motion. In his book Theory of the Image (2019), Nail develops a kinetic philosophy that rethinks the visual from […]
Against the Point: Rethinking Vision Through the Body
Beyond Kandinsky’s Point, Toward an Embodied Field of Perception At a time when digital images multiply endlessly and circulate faster than our capacity to absorb them, it is tempting to return to the origins of visual form — to the point. In Point and Line to Plane, Wassily Kandinsky elevated the point as the […]