THE IMAGE BY PROXY

The exponential growth of image production has created a situation in which images no longer represent, but rather organize. The image by proxy introduces the mass microimage as a framework for understanding how images function as infrastructural agents: automated and recursive, integrated into the logic of the attention economy. In this regime, visibility is preconfigured, not chosen. Images operate by proxy, through algorithmic substitution and systemic validation. Their proliferation erodes perception, replacing memory and history ...[Read more]