Exhibition: Sorting the World

Rue de Freiberg, 94250 Gentilly, France

Two hundred years after the invention of photography, this exhibition questions the future of the photographic image when it is collected and cataloged algorithmically. What remains of its ability to document reality, and of the presumption of truth associated with it? “...to map the entirety of the world of objects” was, since 2009, Fei-Fei-Li’s ambition as a Princeton professor, by creating ImageNet: a collection of images annotated according to distinct criteria. It includes everything from coral reefs to ballistic missiles, all organized in plu…