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Seberger, J. S., & Slaughter, R. A. (2020). The mystics and magic of latent space: Becoming the unseen. Membrana – Journal of Photography, Theory and Visual Culture, 5(1), 88–93. Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (22/09/2025, 01:09) Last edited by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (22/09/2025, 01:48) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed Published DOI: 10.47659/m8.088.art BibTeX citation key: Seberger2020 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Artificial creativity, Artificial Intelligence, Phenomenology, Postphenomenology, Umwelt Creators: Seberger, Slaughter Collection: Membrana – Journal of Photography, Theory and Visual Culture |
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"Bridging concerns from human-computer interaction (HCI) and media studies, this essay theorizes deepfake images in terms of their phenomenological implications: the extent to which they enfold the human viewer in a world of the otherwise unseen. Drawing on comparative phenomenology of Vilém Flusser and Louis Bec, we focus on variational autoencoders (VAEs). We contend that the processes underlying deepfake image construction, as much as deepfake images themselves, evidence a parallel, prosthetic, and computational phenomenology: a study of “that which appears” to a computer, and which appears secondarily to a user-human as image. We use the example of VAEs to argue for the emergence of a second-order, received phenomenology of the augmented human as we reside in an increasingly computational world."
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Note . . . introduces the term "received phenomenology" but only in the abstract. It is the received phenomenology of the augmented human (rather than the received phenomenology of the AI itself [as we are arguing]) experiencing the computer's interpretation of imagery. Note also that this essay uses the term 'computer umwelt.'
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p. 88
"computers and their visions both inherit and interpolate the lived world of the human"
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