SITUATION #47

The following is a collection of diverse materials exploring the hidden filters behind networked digital images. Through an eclectic bibliography consisting of online projects, non artistic materials, texts and academic positions, algorithms regulating the online image world are made visible. These reveal the politics embedded with them and inseparably connected to the photographs appearing on our screens.

Taryn Simon and Aaron Swartz, Image Atlas, 2012; http://www.imageatlas.org/

Dina Kellerman, I'm Google, 2011–ongoing; http://dinakelberman.tumblr.com/

DIS collective, DISimages, 2015; http://disimages.com/

Rafaël Rozendaal, Abstract Browsing, 2014; http://www.abstractbrowsing.net/

@jackyalcine, Google Photos y'all fucked up. My friend's not a gorilla, 2015; https://twitter.com/jackyalcine/status/615329515909156865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

wzamen01, HP computers are racist, 2009; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4DT3tQqgRM

Safiya Umoja Noble, "Google Search: Hyper-visibility as a Means of Rendering Black Women and Girls Invisible", in Invisible Culture, Issue 19, 2013; http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/google-search-hyper-visibility-as-a-means-of-rendering-black-women-and-girls-invisible/

Kim Asendorf, 100.000.000 stolen pixels, 2010; http://kimasendorf.com/100000000/

Sebastian Schmieg, Search by Image, 2011–ongoing; http://www.sebastianschmieg.com/searchbyimage/

Lydia Heller, “Rassismus und Sexismus im Web: wie sich Stereotype in Suchmaschinen festsetzen” in Deutschlandradio Kultur, 8 September 2016; http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/rassismus-und-sexismus-im-web-wie-sich-stereotype-in.976.de.html?dram:article_id=362153

Sebastian Moll, “Präzise berechneter Rassismus”, in Zeit Online, 6 June 2016; http://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2016-06/algorithmen-rassismus-straftaeter-usa-justiz-aclu

Patrick Beuth, "Nein, die Suchmaschine ist nicht rassistisch", in Zeit Online, 9 June 2016; http://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2016-06/google-three-black-teenagers-suchmaschine-rassismus

Social Media Collective, Critical Algorithm Studies: A Timeline, 2016; http://tarletongillespie.org/timeline.html

Lucas D. Introna and David Wood, "Picturing Algorithmic Surveillance: The Politics of Facial Recognition Systems", in Surveillance & Society CCTV Special 2(2/3): 177–198, 2004; http://surveillance-and-society.org/articles2(2)/algorithmic.pdf

Sam Levin, “'Facebook needs an editor': media experts urge change after photo dispute”, in Guardian Online, 10 September 2016; https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/10/facebook-news-media-editor-vietnam-photo-censorship