With today's digital technology, the image is no longer a stable representation of the world, but a programmable view of a database that is updated in real time. It no longer functions as a political and iconic representation, but plays a vital role in synchronic data-to-data relationships. It is not only part of a program, but it contains its own operating code: the image is a program in itself.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Moving Stills (The Ken Burns Effect)
Chapter 2: Expanded Photography (The Desire for Endlessness)
Chapter 3: The Photographic Now (From Sign to Signal)
Chapter 4: In the Matrix (From Geometry to Algorithm)
Chapter 5: The Operative Image (Google Street View: The World as Database)
Chapter 6: In the Urban Data-Space (The Image as Moment of Network Access)
Conclusion: Softimage