Here is an excerpt from a book titled Machine Vision which I have just started to read. This relates to how I am using metadata from photographs--specifically the date-taken metadata, and overlaying them--such that the date makes the image “operative” in that it connects points in time. It is not machinic, per se, but uses that aspect of digital photography that film photography didn't have unless you recorded the dates accurately.
Once we realize that images aren't just representational, we can begin to think more about what else images can do. if we understand operative images as images that contain data and instructions for using the data, maybe we could say that all images are operative: they encode visual information in a way that can be processed by our eyes and brains and interpreted as a representation of something actual or imagined. Abstract art and architecture can cause us to feel in certain ways. We can also think of diagrams, maps and visualizations as operative images.
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