The complex operation of taking – or making – pictures involves two bodies: the organic one of the human whose intention it is to record something, and that of technical object whose task it is to materialize that intention. The operation supposes that these two bodies meet, and establish relations of mutual understanding and interactions. As the aim is an image, it seems that the human’s eye should play the main role in that operation, but in fact, the points of contact are numerous, and the eye does not always play a central part. Sometimes, the heart of the operation does not even stand where the bodies touch, but in other parts of the bodies, or even outside. And the evolution of these modes of interplay engages a history of the operations, and of the kind of images it should produce.

Benoît Turquety is a Professor of Film Studies at the Université Paris 8, director of EUR ArTeC, and director of research at the Swiss National Science Foundation. His research focuses on the epistemology of media technologies, their politics (decolonial, ecological, feminist), and the decentralized history of vision and hearing machines.

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