
#JOHN BERGER WAYS OF SEEING BBC SUMMARY SERIES#
James Bridle asks: what would it mean for a forest to own itself? For a glacier to take photographs? Or, for wind turbines to generate funding for scientific research? Artists taking radical steps to address issues like climate change and corporate control explain how they’re rethinking and rebuilding some of the digital tools we use every day.Ways of Seeing is a 1972 television series of 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb. → Episode Three Transcript Episode 4: Cybernetic Forests (first broadcast 8th May 2019)


Adam Harvey on his Anti-Paparazzi Device and CV Dazzle.Trevor Paglen on machine to machine images.James Bridle on the photoshop drone and automated surveillance.In an era of face-swap and video generation technologies, fake news and conspiracy theory, how has digitisation altered the nature, reliability and power of images? Artists Hito Steyerl, Constant Dullaart and Adam Harvey explore how digital images have become so much more than mere pictures. James Bridle investigates the true meaning of images today. → Episode One Transcript Episode 2: Machine Visions (first broadcast 24th April 2019) Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev on the Critical Engineering Manifesto and Newstweek.James Bridle on financial microwave networks.Ingrid Burrington and her book Networks of New York.32 Avenue of Americas and the AT&T murals.James Bridle on the datacentres of Docklands.Does it matter that it’s been swept out of sight? Artists Ingrid Burrington, Trevor Paglen, Olia Lialina, Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev explain why they’re compelled to show us what’s really going on, beneath the surface. James Bridle looks for the hidden, physical infrastructure of the internet. You can listen to the show on BBC Sounds, via the links below, or on Soundcloud: Episode 1: Invisible Networks (first broadcast 17th April 2019) → The Guardian introduction to the series → The Times Radio Pick of the Week, 14th April 2019 Building on John Berger's seminal Ways of Seeing from 1972, the show explores network infrastructures, digital images, systemic bias, education and the environment, in conversation with a number of contemporary art practitioners. New Ways of Seeing considers the impact of digital technologies on the way we see, understand, and interact with the world.

It was broadcast over four weeks from the 17th of April 2019, on Wednesdays at 9am and 9.30pm. New Ways of Seeing is a four-part radio show written and presented by James Bridle, and produced by Steve Urquhart and Reduced Listening for BBC Radio 4.
