The techno-politics of programming vision

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size DISCLOSURE STATEMENTNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsHeba Y. AminHeba Y. Amin is a Professor of Digital and Time-Based art at ABK-Stuttgart, the co-founder of the Black Athena Collective, curator of visual art for the MIZNA journal, and currently sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Digital War. She was awarded the 2020 Sussmann Artist Award for artists committed to the ideals of democracy and antifascism, and was selected as a Field of Vision Fellow, NYC (2019). Amin’s work has been shown in numerous exhibitions including The Mosaic Rooms, London (2021), the Böttcherstrasse Prize Exhibition, Bremen (2018), Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam (2020), Quai Branly Museum, Paris (2020), MAXXI Museum, Rome (2018), Liverpool Biennial (2021), 10th Berlin Biennale (2018), 15th Istanbul Biennale (2017), and 12th Dak’Art Biennale (2016), to name a few. Her latest publication, Heba Y. Amin: The General’s Stork (ed. Anthony Downey) was recently published by Sternberg Press (2020) and her works and interventions have been covered by The New York Times, The Guardian, the Intercept, and BBC among others. Furthermore, Amin is also one of the artists behind the subversive graffiti action on the set of the television series Homeland which received worldwide media attention.Anthony DowneyAnthony Downey is a Professor of Visual Culture in the Middle East and North Africa (Birmingham City University). He sits on the editorial boards of Third Text, Digital War and Memory, Mind & Media, respectively, and is the series editor for Research/Practice (Sternberg Press, 2020 – ongoing). Recent and upcoming publications include Post-Digital Futures and Algorithmic Anxieties (MIT Press, 2024); Nida Sinnokrot: Palestine Is Not a Garden (Sternberg Press & MIT Press, 2023); Khalil Rabah: Falling Forward – Works, 1995–2025 (Sharjah Art Foundation and Hatje Cantz, 2022); Topologies of Air: Shona Illingworth (Sternberg Press & The Power Plant, 2022), and Heba Y. Amin: The General’s Stork (Sternberg Press/MIT, 2020). He is the Cultural and Commissioning Lead on a four-year multi-disciplinary AHRC Network Plus award, where his research focuses on supporting cultural practices, digital methodologies and educational provision for children with disabilities in Lebanon, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Jordan (2020–2024).