{"title":"Operative Creativity: Art at the Intersection of Simulation and Realization","authors":"Maayan Amir","doi":"10.3390/arts14050099","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This essay proposes operative creativity as a conceptual and artistic response to the shifting roles of images in the age of algorithmic perception. Departing from Harun Farocki’s seminal artwork Eye/Machine, which first introduced the operative image as functioning not to represent but to activate within machinic processes, it traces the transformation of images from representational devices to machinic agents embedded in systems of simulation and realization. Although operative images were initially engineered for strictly technological functions, they have, from their inception, been subject to repurposing for human perception and interpretation. Drawing on literature theorizing the redirection of operative images within military, computational, and epistemic domains, the essay does not attempt a comprehensive survey. Instead, it opens a conceptual aperture within the framework, expanding it to illuminate the secondary redeployment of operative images in contemporary visual culture. Concluding with the artwork Terms and Conditions, co-created by Ruti Sela and the author, it examines how artistic gestures might neutralize the weaponized gaze, offering a mode of operative creativity that troubles machinic vision and reclaims a space for human opacity.","PeriodicalId":30547,"journal":{"name":"Arts","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Arts","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3390/arts14050099","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This essay proposes operative creativity as a conceptual and artistic response to the shifting roles of images in the age of algorithmic perception. Departing from Harun Farocki’s seminal artwork Eye/Machine, which first introduced the operative image as functioning not to represent but to activate within machinic processes, it traces the transformation of images from representational devices to machinic agents embedded in systems of simulation and realization. Although operative images were initially engineered for strictly technological functions, they have, from their inception, been subject to repurposing for human perception and interpretation. Drawing on literature theorizing the redirection of operative images within military, computational, and epistemic domains, the essay does not attempt a comprehensive survey. Instead, it opens a conceptual aperture within the framework, expanding it to illuminate the secondary redeployment of operative images in contemporary visual culture. Concluding with the artwork Terms and Conditions, co-created by Ruti Sela and the author, it examines how artistic gestures might neutralize the weaponized gaze, offering a mode of operative creativity that troubles machinic vision and reclaims a space for human opacity.
本文提出,在算法感知时代,操作创造力是对图像角色转变的概念和艺术回应。哈伦·法罗基(Harun Farocki)开创性的作品《眼睛/机器》(Eye/Machine)首次介绍了操作图像的功能,不是代表而是激活机械过程,它追溯了图像从代表性设备到嵌入模拟和实现系统的机械代理的转变。虽然操作图像最初是为严格的技术功能而设计的,但从一开始,它们就受到重新利用,以供人类感知和解释。借鉴文献理论化的军事,计算和认知领域内的操作图像的重定向,本文不试图进行全面的调查。相反,它在框架内打开了一个概念的缝隙,将其扩展,以阐明当代视觉文化中操作性图像的二次重新部署。以Ruti Sela和作者共同创作的艺术品《条款与条件》(Terms and Conditions)结尾,它探讨了艺术姿态如何抵消武器化的凝视,提供一种操作创造力模式,困扰机器视觉,并为人类的不透明性重新创造空间。