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What does it mean to have more AI generated images online than images created by humans? Should we resist constant uptime, visibility, and acceleration? And do we need to rethink reality in the age of AI when ‘default fakeness’, ‘flippening’ and ‘ima... more

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What infrastructures shape what we’re allowed to do, see, or become? From Technical to Hot to Operational, what are the political ontologies of the contemporary image and how might we rethink interfacing with interfaces?

In this episode, artist Ben... more

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What does it mean to imagine alternatives to prescripted narratives when AI has already prescribed the rules of the world? How to navigate prescriptive AI systems to prototype other worlds, other rules, and other ways of playing within algorithmic co... more

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What does thinking or imaging look like when it’s optimised for scroll, repetition, and affect? When thinking itself becomes “scrollified” how do repetition, optimisation, and affect rewire imagination, compress attention, and turn imaging itself int... more

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Who are we when our identities are shaped through interfaces, datasets, and platforms? And what does it mean to see, to be seen, or to become visible when every act of seeing is mediated by software?  

dmstfctn (Francesco Tacchini and Oliver Smith) ... more

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What if the universe is silent not because it’s empty, but because intelligence knows when to hide? Writer and theorist Bogna Konior traces a forgotten genealogy linking early internet pioneers, ufology, and AI research to argue that the web function... more

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In a time of live-streamed genocide, it has truly never been more clear that witnessing suffering will not automatically trigger social transformation. If the answer is not in shocking jolts and major ruptures, what power might lie in the minor key? ... more

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What if seduction—not dissection—could fracture algorithmic control? Artist, researcher and author Shaka McGlotten guides us through witchy warfare against quantification, deploying computational hexes, opacity, fugitivity and improvisational sabotag... more

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S6 [Becoming Image] E5: The image that’s tired [w/Ruby Justice Thelot]
Q: And so I'm wondering, are we entering, have we entered an age of image amnesia?
Thelot argues that when media becomes the substrate of reality, a world filled with dream images can become an expression of collective desire rather than a reliable record of material experience.
S6 [Becoming Image] E5: The image that’s tired [w/Ruby Justice Thelot]
Q: What are your thoughts on the image in 2026?
Thelot says images are increasingly understood as potentially generated rather than as representations of reality. This frees them from their traditional representational role, while the huge volume of AI images makes individual images less able to hold attention.
S6 [Becoming Image] E4: Darker Patterns [w/Ben Grosser]
Q: Do you think we're developing or we're forming a new kind of literacy based less on interpretation and more on recognizing these image patterns in language? Do you think we're reading things differently now?
Grosser says people are reading differently, increasingly scanning for signs of AI-generated text. Although generated writing can sound fluent, close reading often reveals that it lacks meaning or introduces ideas the writer did not intend. He warns that readers may come to prefer text that sounds right over text that communicates meaningfully.
S6 [Becoming Image] E4: Darker Patterns [w/Ben Grosser]
Q: Is a Facebook Demetricator now relevant, do you think, or have we shifted the way that we engage with these kinds of platforms?
Grosser says Demetricator can still reveal how metrics drive users' actions, but social platforms are widely recognized as harmful and increasingly restrict interface manipulation by moving activity into apps. He sees new opportunities for interventions in generative AI, whose intimate, one-to-one feel can make its design tactics harder to recognize.
S6 [Becoming Image] E2: Brainrot as Theory [w/Dian Joy]
Q: What is Promethean Shame, and why is it significant for artists working with machine-generated imagery?
Promethean Shame captures the feeling of inferiority when comparing human creativity to machine efficiency. It matters because it frames how artists engage with tools that seem capable of 'perfection,' while also offering a critical lens to reveal and critique the biases and ideological structures embedded in AI systems.

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