Thanks to everyone who came to the triple book talk of three recent books on machine vision by James Dobson, Jussi Parikka and me, and thanks for excellent questions. Several people have emailed to asked if we recorded it, and yes we did! Here you go!

James and Jussi’s books are available from University of Minnesota Press and my book is available from Polity. Jussi and my books are open access as well – you can download them from the publishers’ websites.

• James E. Dobson: The Birth of Computer Vision (Minnesota)
• Jussi Parikka: Operational Images: From the Visual to the Invisual (Minnesota) (Open access)
• Jill Walker Rettberg: Machine Vision: How Algorithms are Changing the Way We See the World (Polity) (Open access)

Jussi also mentioned other books on the topic, including two that also came out in 2023 that I look forwards to reading:

• Joanna Zylinska’s The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future between the Eye and AI (MIT Press)
• Andrew Dewdney and Katrina Sluis (eds): The Networked Image in Post-Digital Culture (Routledge)

I also recommend three 2023 special issues of journals on machine vision (one edited by our project team):

• Jill Walker Rettberg, Gabriele de Seta, Marianne Gunderson and Linda Kronman (eds): Cultural Representations of Machine Vision (Open Library of the Humanities – https://lnkd.in/d6a7SBvb)
• Martin Hand and Ashley Scarlett: The Politics and Practices of Computational Seeing (photographies vol 16, 2023) (https://lnkd.in/d6a7SBvb)
• Lukas R.A. Wilde; Marcel Lemmes; Klaus Sachs-Hombach (eds): Generative Imagery: Towards a ‘New Paradigm’ of Machine Learning-Based Image Production (IMAGE: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Image Sciences, Vol 37, 2023)