Vision machines: How technologies are changing our block

The term was coined by the French philosopher Paul Virilio in the late 1980s and describes technologies that can accelerate, expand, and ultimately even replace human vision. According to Virilio, these developments not only change our perception of the world but also fundamentally shape our relationship to it.

Lisa Barnard's exhibition traces the history of aerial photography from its military applications to the current possibilities of machine perception. Isadora Romero, on the other hand, explores experimental and speculative approaches in her work, using the camera to open up more-than-human perspectives. The tour invites you to explore these expanded, technologically mediated forms of seeing.

Katja Müller-Helle is an art and media scholar. She is head of the Research Unit "The Technical Image" at the Institute for Art and Visual History and the Institute for Cultural Techniques at Humboldt University of Berlin. She was a fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome. Her research focuses on digital visual cultures and image censorship, the history and theory of photography, and methods of generating visual evidence.

• With Katja Müller-Helle, art and media scholar / Katharina Täschner, curator, C/O Berlin
  

• Language: German