Indexicality, with Roland Meyer and Gillian Rose

AI images are circulating more and more online and sometimes we can't tell the 'real' from AI-generated. But as I discuss with the inimitable Gillian Rose and Roland Meyer, we need to think about AI images beyond their indexicality, i.e. the idea that a photograph is a direct representation of the subject it captures. In this episode, we grapple with AI generators that are part of extractive, colonial industries, and how that shapes the affect of AI visuals. Recorded Jan 29, 2025. Released Feb 24, 2025.It’s a flat world. The Synthetic Realities of Sorahttps://rrrreflect.org/special-issue-1/its-a-flat-world-the-synthetic-realities-of-sora“It’s a flat world. The Synthetic Realities of AI Video” by Roland Meyer at Hidden Layers 24https://vimeo.com/1011342969The New Value of the ArchiveAI Image Generation and the Visual Economy of ‘Style’https://image-journal.de/the-new-value-of-the-archive/“Generic Pastness. AI Image Synthesis and the Virtualization of the Archive”https://vimeo.com/873978726Models All The Way Down by Christo Buschek & Jer Thorphttps://knowingmachines.org/models-all-the-wayGillian Rose, Professor of Human GeographyFellow of the British Academy and Academy of Social Scienceswebpage: https://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/grose.htmlbluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/profgillian.bsky.socialblog: visualmethodculture.wordpress.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hi everyone, my name is Mél Hogan and I’m a critical media studies scholar based in Canada. I’m working on a project called The Data Fix through a series of conversations with scholars, thinkers and feelers. Together we explore the significance of living in a world of data, and especially the growing trend of “digital humans” in the form of chatbots, holograms, deepfakes, ai images and videos, and even tech that revives the dead. The conversations are minimally edited, and serve as an archive of the collective thinking and feeling that is going into the Data Fix project. Please see thedatafix.net for more details and show notes. Thank you so much for listening.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.