*** With apologies for cross-posting *** Dear AIR listers I am very happy to share news about the publication of my new book Cinema and Machine Vision: Artificial Intelligence, Aesthetics and Spectatorship Published by Edinburgh University Press (https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-cinema-and-machine-vision.html). The book collects my research in how machines are taught to "watch" films and television, and how these practices and associated technologies are reshaping visual culture. I believe this publication will be of interest to people in this list. Please see below for more information from the publisher, including a pre-order discount code and an invitation a launch event in London next week. [-------✄--------] NEW BOOK In his new book, Cinema and Machine Vision: Artificial Intelligence, Aesthetics and Spectatorship, Dr Daniel Chávez Heras unfolds the aesthetic, epistemic, and ideological dimensions of machine-seeing films and television using computers. Through its critical-technical approach, this book presents to the reader key new problems that arise as AI becomes integral to visual culture, theorising machine vision through a selection of aesthetics, film theory, and applied machine learning research. Cinema and Machine Vision dispels widely held assumptions about computer systems designed to watch and make images on our behalf. PRE-ORDER Pre order now directly from the publisher for a 30% discount. Use the code NEW30 LAUNCH EVENT Join the author and guests for a launch event, as part of King's Festival or Artificial Intelligence, on May 22, 7pm. Register here:https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/cinema-and-machine-vision ABOUT THE AUTHOR Daniel Chávez Heras is a Lecturer in Digital Culture and Creative Computing at King’s College London. He specialises on the computational production and analysis of visual culture combining critical frameworks in the history and theories of cinema, television, and photography, with advanced technical practice in creative and scientific computing, including applied machine learning technologies. Website:https://movingpixel.net/ [-------✄--------] Best Daniel -- Dr Daniel Chávez Heras Lecturer in Digital Culture and Creative Computing Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London