Uncertain Image

Ulrik Ekman is Associate Professor in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His main research interests are in the fields of cybernetics and ICT, the network society, new media art, critical design and aesthetics, as well as recent cultural theory.Daniela Agostinho is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research interests are in visual culture theory, feminist theory, film and moving images studies, and digital culture. Her current research focuses on the ethics of digitization of colonial archives, the visual culture of remote warfare, in particular drone warfare, and cultural theories of big data, in particular feminist critiques of datafication.Nanna Bonde Thylstrup is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research is informed by cultural and media theory and focuses in particular on questions of infrastructure, uncertainty, and data waste. Kristin Veel is Associate Professor in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research focuses on the impact of information and communication technology on the contemporary cultural imagination, with a particular interest in issues of information overload and surveillance, and the way in which these are negotiated in film, art and literature.

• Introduction: The uncertainty of the uncertain image 1. The uncertainty of the mass image: logistics and behaviours 2. Thumbnail images: uncertainties, infrastructures and search engines 3. Uncertainties of facial emotion recognition technologies and the automation of emotional labour 4. Ambiguous Physiognomy 5. Hatsune Miku: an uncertain image 6. Creative Control: digital labour, superimposition, datafication, and the image of uncertainty 7. After the Anthropocene: the photographic for earthly survival?