Response: The Camera, Transformed by Machine Vision

In essence I find that in the age of Machine Vision, the operator of the camera becomes more and more a curator of vision. GAN, Google Clips and Bruce Sterling’s camera all to me seem facets of a form of permanent world data collection, that are then curated and filtered by the operator. Through this, the individual’s biases and interests act in through the content they choose to convey, much in a similar fashion to the traditional notion of the eye of the photographer with the point and shoot. The user becomes author of their specific curations, with the camera act as a point of data collection of their world, with the world of camera no longer framed through a snapshot of time but rather a continuous stream of input that is then filtered through: the camera operator as film editor. Through this, the data collection and curation in essence become one. This collected data in turn is no longer limited by the notion of light and indeed visual aesthetics, but becomes a way to frame any stimulus that the world and human existence provides that can be documented.