Visualidade computacional e fissuras do pós-digital: uma aproximação às imagens invisíveis de Trevor Paglen

Abstract

This paper proposes to describe aspects of a computational visuality that is reflexively approached in recent works of the Unitedstatesian artist Trevor Paglen. Such effort aims at describing particular configurations of vision as a historic and sociotechnical construct, which today would be characterized by the increasingly diffused mediation of computer vision technologies. This matter is situated in relation to discussions regarding the ‘post-digital’, a category that seeks to name an advanced stage of digital technologies’ integration to contemporary life. It is then argued that Paglen’s work, through its reflexive approachof computational mediations of the visible, strains certain perspectives of post-digital aesthetics that characterized by a naturalization of digital mediation and the abandonment of the digital as a distinguishing category.