Machine Vision and Encoded Behaviour in Harun Farocki's Later Work

IF 0.4 3区 艺术学 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.3366/film.2023.0231
Moses May-Hobbs
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Harun Farocki's films make use of a category of images the director calls “operational”, a term describing images, either photographic or computer-generated, that perform or participate in tasks, usually in military or industrial settings. Treatments of Farocki's films have frequently used the notion of the operational image uncritically, and without comparing Farocki's definition of these images with existing semiotic categories. This article seeks to situate Farocki's operational imagery within a theory of visual communication, and to explore the implications of automated and instrumental imagery for theories of communication in general. Abandoning the focus in much Farocki scholarship on the representative properties of operational imagery, this article focuses on the world-shaping abilities of images that are integral to war and labour. Drawing primarily on Farocki's Eye / Machine I–III series ( Auge / Maschine, 2000–2003) the article then elaborates on the ways in which the world-shaping capacity of operational images conditions human perception and action. In particular, the limitations imposed by operational images upon human actors who interact with them, or live in environments orchestrated by them, reduce the essential role played by indeterminacy and interpretation in communication.
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Harun Farocki后期作品中的机器视觉和编码行为
哈伦·法罗基的电影使用了一类被导演称为“操作性”的图像,这是一个术语,描述了通常在军事或工业环境中执行或参与任务的图像,无论是摄影的还是计算机生成的。对Farocki电影的处理经常不加批判地使用操作图像的概念,并且没有将Farocki对这些图像的定义与现有的符号学类别进行比较。本文试图将Farocki的操作意象置于视觉传播理论中,并探索自动化和工具化意象对一般传播理论的影响。本文放弃了Farocki学术界对作战图像的代表性属性的关注,重点关注战争和劳动不可或缺的图像的世界塑造能力。文章主要借鉴了Farocki的Eye/Machine I–III系列(Auge/Maschine,2000–2003),然后阐述了操作图像的世界塑造能力对人类感知和行动的影响。特别是,操作图像对与它们互动或生活在由它们策划的环境中的人类行为者施加的限制,减少了不确定性和解释在沟通中发挥的重要作用。
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