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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…