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7 October 2026
…rks themselves. A program may be read as a poem; a conversation may become narrative material; an image may extend into the instructions used to make it. Each contribution can invent its own way of inhabiting the page. Artificial intelligences may take part as tools, interlocutor…
5 October 2026
…hine also produces discourse about art Today the editorial problem has changed scale. A generated image can circulate with a generated commentary; a model can write a review, an artist's biography, or a gallery text. Speed makes abundance easy, but says nothing about the strength…
3 October 2026
…he same availability to memory? With 3rdi, Wafaa Bilal fixed a camera behind his head to make one image per minute, recording even what he left behind. In Tracking Transience, Hasan Elahi accumulated and published traces of his movements in response to surveillance. These works d…
2 October 2026
…. The “vacuum” of physics has properties; it is not the absence of everything. Myths offer an image with which to think about the passage from the undifferentiated to the distinct, not a rival scientific explanation. In the Mesopotamian Enuma Elish, Tiamat and Apsû give the…
30 September 2026
…eed? Extraction may exhaust its own source. In art, NFTs exposed another kind of confiscation: an image could become an accessory to a token valued mainly for its circulation and resale price. Wash trading has been documented in these markets. Not every artistic use of NFTs amoun…
29 September 2026
…nambiguously to the second family. And it is precisely in this family that I place the generative image today: no image exists “in potential” in the billions of parameters of a model; it exists only at the moment a word—a prompt—makes it appear there. The model is the cla…
28 September 2026
…ible. Its worn body is fabricated, its poverty staged; that of people without shelter is not. The image could become a trap for our compassion: we are moved by a machine because it is new, while failing to see the person already there. I imagine this performance as a discreet pre…
25 September 2026
…constantly interacting with it, we develop abilities we do not yet know the form or price of? An image from Arrival shows Louise Banks facing heptapod writing: between her body and the sign, language becomes visible as an experience of transformation. Language as a milieu In my…
24 September 2026
…es disappear, diversity contracts and the model’s representation of the world grows poorer. The image does not literally vanish: what may erode is the variety of examples a model has learned to represent. The outcome depends on the training protocol, data selection and how much…
23 September 2026
…imply someone entering a computer. A hacker produces a new abstraction: code, but also a formula, image, concept, protocol or collective form of life. Wark calls the class that owns the channels and stores of information, and captures the value of such inventions, the “vectoral…
22 September 2026
…PROPHECY 72%ORACLE 54 · Culture & society · 2027An important artwork sold in 2027 is neither an image nor an object, but an AI protocol and its conditions of execution.ORACULARITY 53% · SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY 79%ORACLE 55 · Culture & society · 2027A major European museum r…
21 September 2026
…les. Cellular automata, grammars, noise, evolutionary search and machine learning compose less an image than a system of constraints. For me, the Game of Life is the stripped-down prototype of this idea: a world is not just scenery; it is a machine for consequences. Fractals, per…
20 September 2026
…proposed searching for infrared signatures of civilisations exploiting their stars’ energy. An image of a collector swarm represents a radical shift of scale. The collector swarm on the cover opens that horizon: after the whole Earth, the star as the territory of a technical o…
18 September 2026
…n motion: every idea is expected to end in something we can look at, hear or recount. A beautiful image can leave untouched the rules that made it possible. I want to turn towards those rules. A work might be a relationship between elements, an instruction, a fictional equation,…
17 September 2026
…ld of Reality I propose the Threshold of Reality for the moment when a simulation ceases to be an image and enters the world’s causal chain. It is no longer merely a model we observe: its decisions produce effects, those effects alter its environment, and the environment answer…
16 September 2026
…ive gestures. It transforms the environment in which works appear. “Slop” is not simply a bad image: it is attention polluted by quantity, a selective advantage given to whatever is fast, recognisable, repeatable and cheap. But no curve is sovereign. Technical selection has s…
15 September 2026
Since generative artificial intelligence became capable of producing a convincing image in a few seconds, one question has returned insistently: can it make art? I believe the question is poorly framed. An image may be seductive, strange and technically impressive while remaining…
11 September 2026
…te fields into contact; to venture further into radicality. To be able, at last, to begin with an image, an intuition or a detail discovered in a book, a film, a poem or a simple glance, and immeasurably expand the reach of our imagination.Paper Hard Drive — La Jetée: transfer…
10 September 2026
…her and sometimes produce effects no actor fully anticipated. Automated finance offers a striking image. On May 6, 2010, the Flash Crash sent many US securities plunging before they recovered minutes later. The event did not originate in one omnipotent algorithm, but in interacti…