Hyper-imaging

Dr. Alfredo Cramerotti is a scholar, curator, and cultural entrepreneur whose research examines the intersection of contemporary art, media, and digital culture. As Director of the Media Majlis Museum (mm:museum) at Northwestern University in Qatar, he leads research-driven exhibitions and curatorial initiatives that explore the role of media in shaping contemporary cultural narratives, including for major art biennials and cultural institutions worldwide. His academic inquiry focuses on the evolving nature of curatorial practice in relation to technological advancements, globalization, and digital transformation in the cultural sector.

• Author’s statementForeword by S. Venus Jin 1. The Image: What It Is and What It DoesRethinking Representation and the Performativity of the ImageFraming the Contemporary ImageRethinking the Visual VocabularyA Living Glossary 2. Seeing Through: From Perception to OperationFrom Cognitive Image Formation to Infrastructural AestheticsImage as AgentVisual Content and Machinic OperationThe Contemporary Regime of VisualityImages After Representation 3. Early Trajectories: Transformative Perspectives on Photography and Mass-MediaMcLuhan, Flusser, Vaccari: Historical Legacies and Theoretical InflectionsPrecedents and FrameworksMarshall McLuhan: Pattern and IntuitionVilém Flusser: Code and ApparatusFranco Vaccari: The Technological Unconscious 4. Encoding the VisibleCompression, Circulation, and Modulation in Image BehaviorThe Image as Modus OperandiCirculationism: The Structure of ImagingOperational Aesthetics 5. Visualizing Futures: Approaches Across DisciplinesJournalism, Sociology, Technology, and Art: Reframing Visual ParadigmsLooking, Seeing, Imaging as Thinking PracticeJournalism after the Evidentiary ImageSociology and the Media MachineTechnology as Mechanism and MilieuImage Systems and Artistic ProductionSegue: From Disciplines to Practices 6. Practices of Hyper-imagingCase Studies: Steyerl, Goudal, Syms, Bridle, QuayolaThe Next Field: Hyper-imaging in ActionHito Steyerl: Image as Disappearance / Weapon / EchoNoémie Goudal: Layering the VisualMartine Syms: Horizontality and ImagesJames Bridle: The Network and the ImageQuayola: Computation and ImagesWorking the Image 7. Curating the Image-WorldExhibition-making as Knowledge Device: On Expansion and Pristina Case StudiesThe Evolution of Cultural InteractionsOn Expansion and Hyperimaging!The Aesthetic Experience: Non-Linear, Uncertain, and UnfinishedErica Scourti: Reauthoring the AlgorithmThomas Galler: The Aesthetics of AccumulationMargo Wolowiec: Context and ImagesBrilant Pireva: Distributed SubjectivityFrom Visual Intimacy to Navigational Method 8. The Possibility of an ImageThe Intermediacy of Appearance, Code, and ExperienceIn-between Object, System, and ExperienceSystems Thinking: From Object to InstructionCollapsing the FrameImage-Making as AggregationTriangulating Appearance, Code, and Experience 9. The Transparent LayerFinal Propositions: Toward a Politics of Perceptual MediationThe Invisibility of the ImageCurating in the Age of Hyper-imagingFrom Visual Life to Curatorial AttitudeToward an Ethics of Hyper-visual Mediation Afterword by Melanie LenzAuthor’s postscript: A Future LayerBibliography and SourcesProjects and Works ReferencedIndex