Shadow Creatures. From Spirit Photography to the Ghosts of the Algorithm (Paperback)

Paperback. Haunted by the UnseenSpecters haunt digital images: algorithmic creatures loom in photorealistic video-games, cryptids nest in datasets, and AI prompts bring ghostly figures to the scene.Shadow Creatures traces a long arc from the spirit photography of the nineteenth century to todays algorithmic phantoms to illustrate how images can conjure up beings that inhabit our personal, social, and political subconscious. It redirects our gaze from the promises of light to the shadows in which the spectral and nonhuman inform our perspectives on images and our shared visions.The catalogue illuminates how algorithmic processes engender distinctive ghostly apparitions that blur the boundaries between code, imagination, and projection. The book design extends this exploration, engaging with the tension between what appears real and what remains unseen. With essays by the curators Rea Gruenenfelder and Marco De Mutiis as well as by Matteo Bittanti, Deirdre de la Cruz, Dortje Fink, Arianna Forte, Bogna Konior, Sophie Publig and Mikkel Rorbo, Johny Pitts, Shih-Lun Chang, Shannon Taggart, Jon Uriarte, Guenseli Yalcinkaya, and Sheung Yiu.ArtistsCihad Caner, Nina Davies, Trevor Paglen, Mario Santamaria, Janne Schimmel, Steph Maj Swanson, Shannon Taggart, Agate Tuna, Sheung Yiu Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …