The Look of the Internalized Machine Gaze

The Look of the Internalized Machine Gaze

Book

This book presents the outcomes of an artistic research dissertation project focused on photography and synthetic photography within digitally mediated reality and contemporary algorithmic image technologies, including artificial intelligence. Grounded in posthumanist and non-philosophical approaches, the author develops a glitch feminist and intersectional perspective to critically examine the relations between representation, power, and the metaprograms embedded in digital apparatuses. Photography is approached not as a representation of reality but as an articulation of the machine gaze and the perspectives encoded in technical systems that actively participate in the production of subjectivity, otherness, and dehumanization. The research addresses algorithmic bias, gendered visual regimes, violent forms of subjectivation, and the shifting boundary between the erotic and the pornographic in digital environments. The publication integrates a series of authorial visual works that employ subtractive strategies, taboo, and glitch aesthetics to destabilize subject-object dualisms and explore processes of becoming. The book contributes to artistic research discourse, feminist media theory, and critical studies of digital and AI-driven technologies.

This book presents the outcomes of an artistic research dissertation project focused on photography and synthetic photography within digitally mediated reality and contemporary algorithmic image technologies, including artificial intelligence. Grounded in posthumanist and non-philosophical approaches, the author develops a glitch feminist and intersectional perspective to critically examine the relations between representation, power, and the metaprograms embedded in digital apparatuses. Photography is approached not as a representation of reality but as an articulation of the machine gaze and the perspectives encoded in technical systems that actively participate in the production of subjectivity, otherness, and dehumanization. The research addresses algorithmic bias, gendered visual regimes, violent forms of subjectivation, and the shifting boundary between the erotic and the pornographic in digital environments. The publication integrates a series of authorial visual works that employ subtractive strategies, taboo, and glitch aesthetics to destabilize subject-object dualisms and explore processes of becoming. The book contributes to artistic research discourse, feminist media theory, and critical studies of digital and AI-driven technologies.

artistic research; photography; synthetic photography; posthumanism; glitch feminism; cyborg (Haraway); machine gaze; AI; algorithmic bias; digitally mediated reality; representation and power; virtual and actual sphere; erotic and pornographic; taboo; dehumanization; photophalography; the Other; subtractive strategies; becoming

artistic research; photography; synthetic photography; posthumanism; glitch feminism; cyborg (Haraway); machine gaze; AI; algorithmic bias; digitally mediated reality; representation and power; virtual and actual sphere; erotic and pornographic; taboo; dehumanization; photophalography; the Other; subtractive strategies; becoming

TRNKOVÁ, B.

2026

01.12.2025

FaVU VUT a Vašulka Kitchen Brno

Brno

978-80-214-6381-3

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