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
Photography, Power and Public Space in Britain at Matèria, Rome
In Plain Sight: Photography, Power and Public Space in Britain by Anna Fox, Jermaine Francis, Sunil Gupta, Karen Knorr, MacDonaldStrand, Sarah Pickering, John Stezaker, Bettina von Zwehl, curated by Matèria and Christiane Monarchi, at Matèria, Rome, 05/12/2025–31/01/2026. Matèria is pleased to
Post-Trial. Reputation, Consensus, and Low-Resolution Truth in the Age of Distributed Trust
The End of Visual Evidence For a long time, visual evidence functioned as one of the primary infrastructures of trust. To see was to believe. The image, the document, the visible trace operated as guarantees of truth, as immediate confirmation of a fact, an event, an existence. This regime rested on
Aesthetics of Prediction: When Taste Is Calculated Before It Exists
Is taste still our own sensation, or in recent years has visual taste increasingly emerged as the outcome of an anticipatory process? Recommendation systems, behavioral analytics, trend forecasting, and automated mood boards often function as devices of aesthetic prediction, indicating what will be
TULPA. SALVATION PROTOCOL at Fondazione Spazio Vitale, Verona
TULPA. SALVATION PROTOCOL by Irene Mathilda Alaimo, Luca Campestri, Giacomo Erba, Gabriele Longega, Beatrice Mika Sakaki, curated by Anastasia Pestinova, at Fondazione Spazio Vitale, Verona, January 24, 2026 – February 21, 2026. Once, someone told us that spirits prefer faulty circuits. That ghost
The End of Function
The acceleration of artificial intelligence models is commonly interpreted as a threshold of loss: loss of human centrality, of work, of identity, of meaning. This reading, however, remains anchored to a historical conception of the human as a subject defined by operativity, function, and the necess
Meletios Meletiou, Palimpsest – Stratifications in Time at NM Contemporary, Monte Carlo
Palimpsest – Stratifications in Time by Meletios Meletiou, curated by Alessandro Cazzola, at NM Contemporary, Monte Carlo, November 6, 2025 – January 6, 2026. Every urban fabric is a living archive. Its surfaces, walls, pavements, ornamental elements, store layered information, much like the
Anzhelika Palyvoda, Céline Struger, Sofiia Yesakova, Doubled presence in a disembodied space at TROST, Graz
“Doubled presence in a disembodied space” by Anzhelika Palyvoda, Céline Struger, and Sofiia Yesakova, curated by Markus Sworcik and René Stiegler, at TROST, Graz, 11/12/2025 — 23/01/2026. How do you inhabit a body that is no longer there? And what truly remains when matter becomes a
