Keynote: Kirsten Johnson

Never in human history has the global circulation of images happened at the speed and scale it is now. When cameras were invented over 200 years ago, they required people to operate them. Besides machine-operated surveillance cameras and drones, we now see images that are generated by AI in the absence of both human bodies and minds.

It’s time to revisit the triad of bodies, cameras, and images of bodies. The images of our bodies—whether filmed by ourselves, by others, or by machines, move in the world in deeply different ways than we can. Our images will not die the same deaths we will. Kirsten Johnson's keynote will urge us to think through what it really means for each of us to film from the specificity of our own bodies.