HyperInterfaces - HyperMedia: Artificial Intelligence beyond Anthropocentrism

Catrical�, Valentino ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4369-0123 (2022) HyperInterfaces - HyperMedia: Artificial Intelligence beyond Anthropocentrism. In: MediaProcesses: Moving images across interface aesthetics and gestural policies. Imago, 23 . Bulzoni Editore, pp. 213-229. ISBN 9788868971625

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Abstract

Artificial intelligence today represents a constantly growing sector that is influencing a large part of society. Our economy, our life, every our ehavior is influenced (or driven) by the introduction of new machine and deep learning mechanisms. If we look at the production of images, we realize we are entering in a new regime. The images are now increasingly constructed by machines whose processes and logics are inaccessible to the human, to quote the American artist Trevor Paglen: human eyes become “anachronistic”. An interface is no longer conceivable as a single “object”, rather it is a “hyperobject”, an intertwined network of media “distributed in time and space”. Hyperinterfaces are no longer media that access information; they are the world, the humus, the atmosphere, in which we immerse ourselves, and, at the same time, they emerge and behave within a world made of organic materials, nature, minerals, plants and animals. Hyperinterface means conceiving media as a hyperobject, namely, hypermedia. The text aim at investigating this new media condition beyond new media. The last chapter is dedicated to the work of the artist Hito Steyerl.