Latencies of the statistical image

2025, 08:29 min, HD. Video essay

Today’s computer vision and image AI generators have a particular historical trajectory. From the images they produce, we can trace the statistical dreams that run through and crystallise in them.

This piece has been screened at the Jeu de Paume in Paris as part of Les chambres obscures de l’IA ♯3 (May 2025) and at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles within the UCLA Film & Television Archive series Visions of the Future: Then and Now (October 2025).