Publica­­tions and Presen­­tations

Dvořák, Tomáš. 2021. “Extraterrestrial Images.” in Olga Moskatova (ed.), Images on the Move: Materiality – Networks – Formats. Bielefeld: Transcript, pp. 257-276.

Dvořák, Tomáš. 2021. “Beyond Human Measure: Eccentric Metrics in Visual Culture”. Pp. 41–60 in Tomáš Dvořák and Jussi Parikka, eds. Photography Off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Stejskalová, Tereza. 2021. “Online Weak and Poor Images: On Contemporary Feminist Visual Politics”. Pp. 97–110 in Tomáš Dvořák and Jussi Parikka, eds. Photography Off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Ledvina, Josef. 2021. “Strangely Unique: Pictorial Aesthetics in the Age of Image Abundance”. Pp. 158–182 in Tomáš Dvořák and Jussi Parikka, eds. Photography Off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Parikka, Jussi and Tomáš Dvořák. 2021. “Introduction: On the Scale, Quantity and Measure of Images”. Pp. 1–21 in Tomáš Dvořák and Jussi Parikka, eds. Photography Off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Parikka, Jussi. 2021. “On Seeing When There’s Nothing to See: Practices of Light Beyond Photography.” Pp. 185–210 in Tomáš Dvořák and Jussi Parikka, eds. Photography Off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Šimůnek, Michal. 2021. “The Failed Photographs of Photography: On the Analogue and Slow Photography Movement”.  Pp. 140–157 in Tomáš Dvořák and Jussi Parikka, eds. Photography Off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Parikka, Jussi. 2021. “From Planetary Depth to Surface Measure: Or, How to Read the Future From an Image?” Pp. 286–303 in Karen Redrobe and Jeff Scheible, eds. Deep Mediations. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Šimůnek, Michal. 2021. “Buttonless Cameras and the Machine-made Snapshot Aesthetic.” Pp. 128–128 in R. W. Allen, ed. Art Machines 2: International Symposium on Machine Learning and Art 2021 Proceedings. Hong Kong: School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. https://www.cityu.edu.hk/scm/artmachines2/AM2%20Conference%20Proceedings.pdf

Gil-Fournier, Abelardo and Jussi Parikka. 2020. “’Visual Hallucination of Probable Events’: On Environments of Images, Data, and Machine Learning”. In: Natasha Lushetisch, ed. Big Data: A New Medium? London: Routledge.

Dvořák, Tomáš. 2022. “Reconsidering Cameraless Photography.” Philosophy of Photography, 13:1, pp. 3-15. https://doi.org/10.1386/pop_00036_2

Stejskalová, Tereza. 2022. “The surrogate labor of the eye: Farocki, Papa, and the eeefff collective.” Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, 14:1. https://doi.org/10.1080/20004214.2022.2156754

Gil-Fournier, Abelardo. 2022. “Fundir el espejo y esculpir la imagen. Tarkovsky, agricultura y la transformación del paisaje.” Aisthesis, 72, pp. 54-71. https://doi.org/10.7764/Aisth.72.3

Charvát, Martin. 2022. “Pureness or corruption: Spectres and ghosts between photography and X-rays”. Philosophy of Photography, 12:1, pp. 99–118, https://doi.org/10.1386/pop_00041_1.

Charvát, Martin. 2022. “Disrupted Dwelling: Forensic Aesthetics and the Visibility of Violence“. ESPES. The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics, 11:2, pp. 69-77. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7506937.

Stejskalová, Tereza. 2021. “No creation without destruction: images of childbirth and Candice Breitz’s Labour”. Journal of Visual Art Practice, vol. 20, no. 1–2: 48–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702029.2021.1917907.

Dvořák, Tomáš and Jussi Parikka. 2021. “Measuring photographs”. Photographies, vol. 14, no. 3: 435–457. DOI: 10.1080/17540763.2021.1957004.

Bhowmik, Samir and Jussi Parikka. Forthcoming. “Memory Machines: Infrastructural Performance as an Art Method.” Forthcoming in Leonardo journal, 2021.

Parikka, Jussi, and Abelardo Gil-Fournier. 2021. “An Ecoaesthetic of Vegetal Surfaces: On Seed, Image, Ground as Soft Montage.” Journal of Visual Art Practice 20, no. 1–2: 16–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702029.2021.1917858.

Parikka, Jussi. 2021. “The Diagrams of AI (Image).” The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics 30, no. 61–62: 148–153. Retrieved from https://tidsskrift.dk/nja/article/view/127893.

Sampson, Tony D., and Jussi Parikka. 2021. “The Operational Loops of a Pandemic.” Cultural Politics 17, no. 1: 55–68. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/786391.

Gil-Fournier, Abelardo and Jussi Parikka. 2020. “Ground Truth to Fake Geographies: Machine Vision and Learning in Visual Practices.” AI & Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-020-01062-3

Parikka, Jussi. 2020. “A Recursive Web of Models: Studio Tomás Saraceno’s Working Objects.” Configurations 28, no. 3: 309–32. https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2020.0019.

Šimůnek, Michal. 2023. “Analogue-digital Encounters in Photography.” Invited talk at Talks on everyday imaging – the analogue and digital realm of the vernacular. Eidolon Centre for Everyday Photography, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, November 2, 2023. https://everydayphotography.org/centre/talks-on-everyday-imaging-the-analogue-and-digital-realm-of-the-vernacular

Šimůnek, Michal. 2023. “The Decisive Moment.” Conference panel presentation at Computing the Human, Brno, Czech Republic, October 26–28, 2023. https://emorob.fss.muni.cz/conference/program

Šimůnek, Michal. 2023. “Non-human documentary vision: Photography, autonomous apparatuses, and everyday life.” Conference panel presentation at Visible Evidence XXIX, Udine, Italy, September 6–9, 2023.

Dvořák, Tomáš. 2022. “Epistemology of the Shadow (Media Archaeology of the Sensor).” NECS 2022 Conference, Epistemic Media: Atlas, Archive, Network. 22-26/06/2022

Dvořák, Tomáš. 2022. “The Ambivalence of Optical Toys: Self-Knowledge and Operational Aesthetics in the Nineteenth Century.” American Comparative Literature Association. National Taiwan Normal University. 15-18/06/2022

Dvořák, Tomáš. “Photography Between the Picturesque and Pattern Recognition.” Invited talk at Medienkulturwissenschaft – Digitale Kulturen, Universität Passau, 06/07/2022.

Charvát, Martin. 2002. “Operators and Cyborg Bodies in Czech Avantgarde (1920-1927)”. Conference panel presentation at American Comparative Literature Association conference, Taiwan, CLAROC, National Taiwan Normal University, June 15–19, 2022.

Charvát, Martin. 2002. “Re-Scalling Labor: From Gilbreths Motion Efficiency Study to Harun Farocki‘s Operational Images”. Conference panel presentation at Epistemic Media: Atlas, Archive, Network, NECS 2022 conference, Bucharest, June 22-26, 2022.`

Šimůnek, Michal. 2022. “Whither the Vernacular? Buttonless Cameras and Non-human Imagining of Everyday Life.” Conference panel presentation at International Conference of Photography and Theory 2022 (ICPT2022), Nicosia, Cyprus, November 17-19, 2022.

Šimůnek, Michal. 2022. “Set, Wear, and Forget: On Epistemic Authority of Lifelogging Cameras.” Conference panel presentation at Epistemic Media: Atlas, Archive, Network, NECS 2022 conference, Bucharest, June 22-26, 2022.

Parikka, Jussi. “Operational Image Surfaces”. Invited talk for the conference/talk series In/Visible Landscapes: [Post]-photographic practices and the politics of ecology organised by the International Organization of Photography and Theory. September 17, 2021.

Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka. “Seed, Image, Ground and Other Art Practices of the Surface.” Invited talk for the Practice as Research: editing audiovisual essays -symposium. NTNU (Trondheim, Norway) and Stockholm University, September 23, 2021.

Parikka, Jussi. 2021. Invited keynote, the Design History Society annual conference 2021, Basel, Switzerland. September 2021.

Parikka, Jussi. 2021. Invited talk for the Rescaling the Visible conference/workshop, Kings College London and Université de Paris, June 15-16 2021.

Parikka, Jussi. 2021. Invited talk for the Anthropocene Forum part of Portugal’s EU presidency, 15-17th June 2021, Coa Museum, Portugal.

Parikka, Jussi. 2021. “Photography Off the Scale and Other Operations of the Image.” Invited talk, Aalto University, Photography department/School of Arts, May 20, 2021.

Parikka, Jussi. 2021. “Survey, Seed, and Monitor: From Seed-Bombing to Remote Sensing.” Invited talk, Environmental Humanities talk series, Bath Spa University, March 17, 2021.

Parikka, Jussi. 2021. “An Ecoaesthetic of Vegetal Surfaces: On Seed, Image, Ground as Soft Montage.” Invited talk, Design Informatics talk series, Edinburgh University, March 2021.

Parikka, Jussi. 2021. “Operational Images, Soft Montage: On Seed, Image, Ground as an Audiovisual Essay.” Invited talk, University of Arts, Helsinki. February 2021.

Parikka, Jussi. 2021. “Invisibility and Invisuality: Images in Digital Arts and Culture.” Invited talk for the conference Digital Arts: Multiple Realities, Ludic Realities. International Congress of Art, Science, Technology UEMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, March 22, 2021.

Parikka, Jussi. 2021. “Invisibility and Invisuality: Images in Digital Arts and Culture.” Invited keynote for the Estonian Graduate Winter School of Culture Studies and the Arts, January 2021, University of Tallinn.

Šimůnek, Michal. 2021. “Buttonless Cameras and the Machine-made Snapshot Aesthetic.” Conference panel presentation at Art Machines/2, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, June 11, 2021. https://www.cityu.edu.hk/sites/g/files/asqsls5796/files/2021-05/Buttonless%20Cameras%20and%20the%20Machine-made%20Snapshot%20Aesthetic.pdf

Šimůnek, Michal. 2021. “An archaeology of a shutter button: tracking a photographic gesture of non-human operators.” Conference panel presentation at Visualizing Social Changes Seen & Unseen, IVSA annual conference, Virtual-2021, July 5-8, 2021.

Dvorak, Tomas and Parikka, Jussi. 2020. “Expert-Readable Images” accepted conference presentation, Photomedia 2020 conference, Helsinki/Aalto University. Cancelled due to Covid19.

Gil-Fournier, Abelardo and Jussi Parikka. 2020. “Landscapes of Artificial Intelligence.” Invited conversation with artist Abelardo Gil-Fournier, Le Bal, Paris, February 27, 2020.

Gil-Fournier, Abelardo and Jussi Parikka. 2020. “Vegetal Images. An experimental media archaeology of nonhuman vision.” Conference panel presentation at 4S/EASST in Prague, August 2020.

Parikka, Jussi. 2020 “Operational Images, Soft Montage: On Seed, Image, Ground as an Audiovisual Essay.” Invited keynote, Experimental Zone 1: Re-Thinking Methodologies at Intersections of the Arts and the Humanities, Linköping University, Sweden, November 19, 2020.

Parikka, Jussi. 2020. “A Natural History of Logistics.” Invited keynote for the final conference of the Terraforming program, Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, July 2, 2020.

Parikka, Jussi. 2020. “Operational Images and Contemporary Art.” Invited (online) lecture for the Fine Art MA programme, Royal College of Art, London, June 10, 2020

Parikka, Jussi. 2020. “Operational Images: Surface, Measure, Scale.” Invited lecture (online) for the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image at London South Bank University, June 3, 2020.

Parikka, Jussi. 2020. “Geostories and Cosmograms, Audiovisions and SF, or How To Narrate the Complex Present and Futures.” Invited keynote, International Narrative Conference, New Orleans, March 2020

Parikka, Jussi. 2020. “Cinema at a Large-Scale, and Other Art and Media for the Environmental Humanities.” Invited keynote, MeCCSA, UK, Brighton, January 2020.

Šimůnek, Michal. 2020. “Nonhuman operators and vernacular photography: Google Clips camera and its failed search for a spontaneous and authentic record of everyday life.” Conference panel presentation at 4S/EASST, Prague, August 18-21, 2020.

Šimůnek, Michal. 2020. “Buttonless Cameras.” Conference presentation at Images Beyond Control, FAMU, Prague, November 6, 2020.

Šimůnek, Michal. 2020. “Photographs of Photography: On Contemporary Meta-pictorial and Meta-referential Practices in Art and Science.” Conference panel presentation at Photo: Science – Photography and Scientific Discourses, Institute of Art History, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, November 30 – December 2, 2020

Parikka, Jussi. 2019. “Media Archaeology and the Public Humanities.” Invited talk at the Digital and Public Humanities Institute, Ca’Foscari University, Venice, December 6, 2019

Parikka, Jussi. 2019. “Media Archaeology: Theory to Practice, Archive to Lab.” Invited lecture at Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM, Milan, Italy, November 25, 2019.

Parikka, Jussi. 2019. “An Anticipatory Tutorial for a Media Archaeology of Operational Images as Environmental Apparatuses.” Panel presentation at the Light-Sensitive-Material conference, University of West London, November 1, 2019

Parikka, Jussi. 2019. “Webs, Models, and Methods: Art Practices and Environmental Humanities.” Invited keynote, Trondheim, Ars Council Norway.

Parikka, Jussi. 2019. “Fake Geography to Video Art: Visual Cultures of Machine Learning and Prediction.” Invited talk, University of Bergen, Norway, September 9, 2019.

Parikka, Jussi. 2019. “Vanishing Counterpoints: On Air, Bees, Spiders, and Other AI.” Keynote, Art in the Anthropocene conference, Trinity College, Dublin, June 9.

Šimůnek, Michal. 2019. “A Machine for Making Authenticity: Family Photography and Nonhuman Operators.” Conference panel presentation at The Post-photographic Apparatus, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Lucerne. November 13-15, 2019. https://blog.hslu.ch/postphotography/research-activities/the-post-photographic-apparatus/