Felicity Hammond
Model Collapse

Workshop
Wed, 1 April 2026 at 4 PM
ALUO, Tobačna 5, Ljubljana

FREE admission. Registration required!

Part of tactics&practice #17: Becoming Image
Curated by Marco De Mutiis

In this practical workshop, participants will experiment with expanded collage making as a way to understand the circulation of images in the age of machine learning. They will explore the phenomenon of model collapse: a degenerative learning process caused when a model is trained on AI generated content. AI images reverse the indexical logic of photography and play a role in shaping the world; through this practical workshop, we will ask what happens when the image comes first.

Please note: whilst we are exploring machine learning tools, we will not be using generative AI software in this workshop.

Takeaways: 

Participants will develop an understanding of how:

1. Model collapse causes data loss, degradation, and abstraction within generative AI systems.
2. Collage and generative AI have many overlapping qualities.
3. Data labelling is a limiting and unethical practice.

Duration: 3h

Knowledge required: 
No prior knowledge required

FREE admission. Registration required!

THE AUTHOR

Felicity Hammond (Birmingham UK, 1988) works with installation and world building to explore digital materialities. Her recent practice-based research seeks to understand extraction as a process that binds the geological with the digital realm, creating evolving generative installation works that expose this relationship. Re-staging is a key method in Hammond’s work, where the re-production of digital events draws attention to their flaws. Hammond was the recipient of the Ampersand Photoworks fellowship (2023) and has exhibited her work at The Photographers’ Gallery, C/O Berlin, Fotomuseum Winterthur, VOX Centre de l’image Contemporaine Montreal and Transmediale/HKW, among others. 

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