VAST: Visiting Artist & Scholar Talks

This talk draws on Photo Obscura: The Photographic in Post-Photography (Intellect, 2025), a book which examines how photography continues to evolve under the conditions of digital culture, networked media, and computational image-making. I argue that we have entered an advanced stage of post-photography, where collecting, copying, and manipulating images are no longer the dominant operations. They have been joined by new ways of working with, within, and around the photographic image, yielding results that no longer resemble photographs at all. Yet post-photography does not signal the end of photography, rather it identifies its ongoing transformation toward hybrid forms that merge aesthetics, technology, philosophy, and computation. These transformations reshape perception, subjectivity, authorship, and our understanding of truth and reality itself. Furthermore, the camera has been remediated into broader technological systems beyond a single device or apparatus. Images emerge across distributed environments of cloud computing, data storage, machine vision, networks, browsers, video games, 3D environments, surveillance systems, and computational interfaces. Every digital space has become a potential site of capture, navigation, extraction, or simulation. In this way, the world itself has become a camera.