About the project
The Operational Atlas gathers operational processes designed to investigate how a technical image is destabilized when subjected to different transformation regimes.
Four transformation regimes
ALGORITHMIC TRANSFORMATION
Operations carried out using software, generative models, compression, automation, or computational processing. The image is modified through rules, calculations, parameters, or systems that reorganize its visual information.
CAPTURE AND MATERIALIZATION
Operations in which an image is recaptured, printed, scanned, photographed, or transferred between devices and surfaces. Each change of support introduces losses, interferences, material variations, and new conditions of visibility.
TRANSLATION BETWEEN REPRESENTATION SYSTEMS
Operations that shift an image between different languages or forms of coding, such as image, text, data, instruction, diagram, or generated image. The transformation occurs in the step between systems that do not equivalently preserve the original information.
DIRECT MATERIAL INTERVENTION
Operations performed physically on the image, its support, or its surface through painting, drawing, cutting, superposition, erasure, folding, transfer, or manual manipulation. The transformation incorporates bodily action, matter, and the resistance of the support.
The objective of the Atlas is to build an operational repertoire that allows comparing, documenting, and selecting transformations capable of leading the image toward open and productive states, interrupting already encoded visual configurations and opening up new perceptual experiences and different modes of image construction.
In these states, their form, color, contour, space, recognition, and perception may enter into crisis, but also their very condition as an image: what information it communicates, how it circulates, what system processes it, and under what form it appears again.
Opposing technologies oriented toward stabilizing, optimizing, and making images recognizable, the Atlas uses transformation as a way to open them up to new questions, relations, and production possibilities.