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12th Workshop on Computing within Limits

20 Mar 2026 · Open call

Intellectual Furniture. A (Pre-)History of Large Language Models

03 Apr 2026 · Call for papers

The agency of images in the cognitive ecology of artificial intelligence

31 May 2026 · Call for papers

Generative Curation Symposium: Debates Around Archival and Exhibition Practices

05 Dec 2025 · Open call

Post-photographic Images. Generative Imaging Processes

25 Nov 2025 · Conference

DeepAesthetics: Computational Experience in a Time of Machine Learning

Unpacking Generativity: Generative AI Systems

07 Oct 2025 · News

Open Call: Human Machine

16 Nov 2025 · Open call

React and Response. Image Cultures under Platform Capitalism

02 Oct 2025 · Conference

En/Countering Tracking. Resisting spatiotemporal media operations in computational culture

15 Sep 2025 · Open call

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Principles for Critical Research and Artistic Practice

Prompted Monads – Art, AI, and the Fantasy of Totality

Boris Čučković Berger · Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians.

Vibe coding the future

Simon Denny · Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians.

Vectofascism – Part II: Vectopolitics

Gregory Chatonsky · Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians.

Vectofascism – Part I: Vectoaesthetics

Gregory Chatonsky · Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians.

Who Are We In A World Built On Algorithms & Dynamite?

Reena Devi · A Multipolar Art World

A multipolar Art World?

Joshua Citarella · A Multipolar Art World

HalluciGen. A practical implementation to defend from AI scrapers

Matthias Planitzer · Experiments

Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians.

Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians.

Combat at Gamer’s Pace – No Pause nor Reset Button. The image-space of contemporary warfare

Olga Danylyuk · Dronomation

Killing at Scale

Sophia Goodfriend · Dronomation

Verbal Bombs and Sonic Memory of the Mountains

Savaş Boyraz · Dronomation

Eichmann’s inheritance – On AI and autonomous weapons in a darkening world

Elke Schwarz · Dronomation

The Criminal Imprecision of Algorithmic Warfare

Lucy Suchman · Dronomation

Seeing without Seeing – Towards a Generative Archival Practice

Kevin B. Lee · If AI was the answer, what was the question, again?

Human computers, the labourious history of computing

RYBN · If AI was the answer, what was the question, again?

Financializing Intelligence. On the Integration of Machines and Markets

Orit Halpern · If AI was the answer, what was the question, again?

Vantablack. Generative AI as premonition

Felix Stalder · If AI was the answer, what was the question, again?

mid-life, mid-art, mid-journey

Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians.

Hito Steyerl, Francis Hunger · Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians.

Politics of Latent Spaces

Antonio Somaini · Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians.

Mat Dryhurst · Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians.

The Only Flowering Plant in the Ocean

Navine G. Dossos, James Bridle · Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians.

The hyperreal iconoclasm exploit

Constant Dullaart · Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians.

Vibe-coding the future

Simon Denny · Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians.

Gregory Chatonsky · Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians.

!Mediengruppe Bitnik · Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians.

Verbal bombs and sonic resilience

Savaş Boyraz · Dronomation

Combat at Gamer’s Pace. No Pause nor Reset Button

Olga Danylyuk · Dronomation

Cult of Lethality

Sophia Goodfriend · Dronomation

Consumer off-the-shelf drones

Francis Hunger · Dronomation

Synthetic Battlefield in the Time of Dynamic Maps

Svitlana Matviyenko · Dronomation

A low-cost flight beyond the dialectic of post-digital warfare

Dani Ploeger · Dronomation

Crimes of Dispassion – Autonomous Weapons and the Moral Challenge of Systematic Killing

Elke Schwarz · Dronomation

Surrogate Data and Ungovernable Data

Elisa Giardina Papa · If AI was the answer, what was the question, again?

Speculative Nets – Artificial Intelligence, Finance, and Reactionary Politics

Orit Halpern · If AI was the answer, what was the question, again?

Unreal Creations. Generative AI as premonition

Felix Stalder · If AI was the answer, what was the question, again?

Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500

Vladan Joler · Image Infrastructures

The Opticality Unconscious

Amanda Wasielewski · Image Infrastructures

Dreamworlds of Platform Capitalism

Roland Meyer · Image Infrastructures

Conversations (under construction)

Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500

Vladan Joler · Image Infrastructures

A Multipolar Art World

Who Are We In A World Built On Algorithms & Dynamite?

A multipolar Art World?

Joshua Citarella

Image Infrastructures

Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500

The Opticality Unconscious

Amanda Wasielewski

Dreamworlds of Platform Capitalism

Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians.

Prompted Monads – Art, AI, and the Fantasy of Totality

Boris Čučković Berger

Vibe coding the future

Vectofascism – Part II: Vectopolitics

Gregory Chatonsky

Vectofascism – Part I: Vectoaesthetics

Gregory Chatonsky

mid-life, mid-art, mid-journey

Hito Steyerl, Francis Hunger

Politics of Latent Spaces

Antonio Somaini

The Only Flowering Plant in the Ocean

Navine G. Dossos, James Bridle

The hyperreal iconoclasm exploit

Constant Dullaart

Vibe-coding the future

Gregory Chatonsky

!Mediengruppe Bitnik

Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians.

Combat at Gamer’s Pace – No Pause nor Reset Button. The image-space of contemporary warfare

Killing at Scale

Sophia Goodfriend

Verbal Bombs and Sonic Memory of the Mountains

Eichmann’s inheritance – On AI and autonomous weapons in a darkening world

The Criminal Imprecision of Algorithmic Warfare

Verbal bombs and sonic resilience

Combat at Gamer’s Pace. No Pause nor Reset Button

Cult of Lethality

Sophia Goodfriend

Consumer off-the-shelf drones

Synthetic Battlefield in the Time of Dynamic Maps

Svitlana Matviyenko

A low-cost flight beyond the dialectic of post-digital warfare

Crimes of Dispassion – Autonomous Weapons and the Moral Challenge of Systematic Killing

HalluciGen. A practical implementation to defend from AI scrapers

Matthias Planitzer

If AI was the answer, what was the question, again?

Seeing without Seeing – Towards a Generative Archival Practice

Human computers, the labourious history of computing

Financializing Intelligence. On the Integration of Machines and Markets

Vantablack. Generative AI as premonition

Surrogate Data and Ungovernable Data

Elisa Giardina Papa

Speculative Nets – Artificial Intelligence, Finance, and Reactionary Politics

Unreal Creations. Generative AI as premonition

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!Mediengruppe Bitnik

Gregory Chatonsky

Joshua Citarella

Boris Čučković Berger

Navine G. Dossos

Constant Dullaart

Thotti Forneiro

Elisa Giardina Papa

Sophia Goodfriend

Svitlana Matviyenko

Daniel Muzyczuk

Matthias Planitzer

Quinn Slobodian

Antonio Somaini

Roberto Alonso Trillo

Amanda Wasielewski

Günseli Yalcinkaya