Postphotography Reading Response

A great example of non-human photography is the following paper on Computational Imaging on the Electric Grid (http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/ACam/). Using a high-speed camera, researchers were able to sync the frames with the changes in the electric grid. They discovered that instead of providing power to every house in a city, the electric grid instead switches between 3 different groups, providing power to one group at a time to not overload energy throughput. The switch between groups is so quick 1/1000 of a second, that we never notice that our lights are actually flickering.

 

New technology, as stated by Zylinska, indeed advances our ability to capture non-human photography. Every year, vision conferences are able to find new ways to detect objects invisible to the human eye because of new sensors that can sense past human ability. The saying that technology helps us see the world in a new way is true in that technology strengthens or gives us new senses. The world is full of data, and new technology helps us collect it.