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
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
