How are computational optics operating in and through the built environment? How have they become so ubiquitous and taken for granted, completing the desires of fulfillment centres and the legibility that computation craves? What computational logics, imaginaries, and frameworks lie outside of their dominant modes of perception and commoditization?
On Thursday 17 July 2025, Kara Keeling and Simone Niquille shared recent research and exchanged on the interrelated conceptual terrains of synthetic data, the limits of knowledge, absence, and computer vision’s contested modes of legibility. What do computers “see,” and in turn allow humans to draw profit or create private property from, while also projecting alternative ways of valuing perceptions that deviate from algorithmic and digital normativity?
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