The Viewer After Scarcity: New literacies for an art that grows without asking for consent
A sharp essay on AI art after scarcity: why meaning forms through duration and return, and how viewers, curators, markets, and collectors adapt to hyperproduction.
Architectures of Trust in the Age of Delegated Cognition
An in depth analysis of how delegated cognition, metrics, and algorithmic systems reshape authority, responsibility, and the cultural design of trust in contemporary society.
Tales from Fractured Minds: Dissociation as Refuge and Rupture
Tales from Fractured Minds: Dissociation as Refuge and Rupture curated by Matteo Giovanelli, at The Address Gallery, Brescia, 21/02/2026 – 29/03/2026. There is a thin threshold between being present and being absent. Not a door, but a membrane. Dissociation, as the exhibition text notes, is a stat
Voltage Aesthetics: The Invisible Authority of the Apparatus
An exploration of how voltage, battery life, and device governance shape digital aesthetics, revealing how energy management preconfigures perception before interpretation begins.
Beyond the Unicum: The Image-Flux in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
An in depth analysis of how AI driven image production ends the era of the unique masterpiece and creates a continuous visual stream shaped by platforms and metrics.
Martin Galle, All About Nothing at Suburbia Contemporary Leipzig Spinnerei, Leipzig
All About Nothing by Martin Galle, at Suburbia Contemporary Leipzig Spinnerei, Leipzig, 10/01/2026 – 18/04/2026. The phrase feels disarming, almost evasive, and yet it carries a peculiar gravity.Nothing, does it mean absence, or the space from which everything emerges?As we cross the threshold, we
Joe Bartram, Silver Bunny, Dummy at DISPLAY, Parma
Silver Bunny, Dummy by Joe Bartram, curated by Ilaria Monti, at DISPLAY, Parma, 7 Feb – 15 Mar 2026. We remember the rabbit before we remember ourselves.A cartoon creature, suspended in perpetual hunger.A cereal box withheld. A slogan repeated.“Silly rabbit! Trix are for kids!” Standing at the
How to Lie to a Language Model: The Rhetoric of the Bypass
When we think of a user attempting to hack an artificial intelligence system, the immediate image is of someone trying to break into the code or uncover a technical vulnerability. At first, we approached the issue in the same way: as a matter of cybersecurity, system architecture, and safeguards to
On Images That Remember Without History
Some time ago, we found ourselves scrolling through a late-night feed with no particular intention, letting images follow one another in a continuous flow. After a few minutes, a peculiar sensation emerged: faces changed, contexts shifted, yet the gestures remained strikingly similar. The same emoti
Barthes and Debord: The Cultural Work of Images in Late Modernity
For some time now, we have been engaging with the question of the image, observing its transformations, its drifts, and its increasingly central role in the construction of contemporary reality. This time, we aim to develop a reflection on how the visual entity has come to assert itself as a form of
