In week 1, 11th of feb, we were introduced to the ‘future of image’ diagram which is ironically and image itself, this was after reading page 151-163 of Bruno Latour-missing Masses.
In the text, I received these pages as an explanation of the ideology of how each piece of technology has an impact on society and our socialisation. The prime example of this was hinges, man would have to physically break a hole in the wall in order to pass but now can easily open the door and have it close behind him, allowing the action to repeat. This was then evolved into a groom (doorman) granting entrance. This the made me think about club bouncers and how they can dictate entrance and can control the insides behind the door.
When looking at the ‘Future of them image’ diagram, the subtitle explains how basically once the diagram is understood in means of work and logic, we will have ultimately worked out AI and the future of image. When analysing some of the links, all of this came back to me and related to myself as our relation to each other through images- an output of technology. The nature of this map is to show how every concept has a link in some shape or form. This ranged for me like the likes of a USB stick, through different concepts, it appears to be connecting with compression (the act of making a file smaller), to linking with watermarking. Watermarks are added to images so that they can’t be used without permission, The watermark can be placed onto a compressed file or image to further stop this, A watermark may be labelled on the usb to show the brand of purchase or its quality etc and coming full circle; A compression may be needed to fit into the usb max file sizes or to be put into a machine with a maximum GB.
eleanor thorndyke 