As a gentle reminder, a couple years ago I wrote an open-access piece about generic images/stock photos as ambient imagery setting the 'mood' of everyday life in the city for this volume edited by @profgillian.bsky.social: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... - ThreadSky

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giorgiaaiello.bsky.social • 17 days ago

As a gentle reminder, a couple years ago I wrote an open-access piece about generic images/stock photos as ambient imagery setting the 'mood' of everyday life in the city for this volume edited by @profgillian.bsky.social: https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463727037/seeing-the-city-digitally

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giorgiaaiello.bsky.social•17 days ago

Thanks for the repost, Roland! @bildoperationen.bsky.social

giorgiaaiello.bsky.social•17 days ago

The piece, "Perfect Strangers in the City: Stock
Photography as Ambient Imagery", outlines how the unremarkable but also familiar and flexible aesthetics of 'generic images' works to animate precarious urban spaces and add sensorial/textural qualities to alienating 'landscapes of capital'.

giorgiaaiello.bsky.social•17 days ago

"[S]tock photography’s ambient qualities are centred on aesthetic choices that may make urban sites and surfaces that are often unremarkable and utilitarian if not downright precarious and alienating more engaging and even comforting."

giorgiaaiello.bsky.social•17 days ago

"This is a mood that feeds on encounters with familiar and flexible subjects which may make us feel close to these sites and surfaces, and also good about ourselves as we traverse the city."

giorgiaaiello.bsky.social•17 days ago

"In doing so, however, these encounters also promote individualized – or dare we say, neoliberal – approaches to living with others in cities."

giorgiaaiello.bsky.social•17 days ago

"At the same time, this ambient imagery personally invites us into the spaces it occupies in ways that may enable us to start imagining what life in the city could be like in a more sensuous, embodied manner."

giorgiaaiello.bsky.social•17 days ago

So, what are the experiential and sensorial encounters that will set apart a city when AI images become its ambient imagery? What kinds of 'mood', 'atmosphere' and 'embodiment' will these encounters promote, and how will these contribute to transforming our approaches to urban living and 'being'?

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