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Becoming Image - The symposium<\/strong><\/h2>\r\nFrom computer graphics to networked images, from computer vision to generative AI, computational systems have started shaping not only our perception of the world but also its operations and fundamental reality. As images shift from representational surfaces to active foundations on top of which global social and political systems are built, how does one make sense of and relate to this image world?<\/span>\r\n\r\nThrough a series of talks, video essays, and inputs by invited artists and researchers, this symposium explores the relations between computational images and their effects on the world outside of the screen.<\/span>\r\n\r\nAlan Warburton's 2020 video essay <\/span>RGBFAQ <\/span><\/i>traces a recent history of what he terms the hyperimage, drafting a trajectory from computer graphics to synthetic data and examining how images have become increasingly unmoored from photographic indexicality.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMarco De Mutiis introduces the topic of <\/span>Becoming Image<\/span><\/i>, offering an overview of the different modes in which images have become operational actors \u2013 and how digital simulations, game worlds, and computational models affect behaviours, shape subjects, and implement their algorithmic images onto the world.<\/span>\r\n\r\nSheung Yiu's video essay <\/span>It's a Face-eat-face World<\/span><\/i> investigates how synthetic faces replace the real and transform identities, tracing the cyclical evolution from facial recognition to synthetic facial data through uncanny visuals of digital doubles traversing vast abstract landscapes.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMartyna Marciniak unpacks the complex landscape of synthetic image misinformation, tracing visual mechanisms of manufacturing belief and trust \u2013 and considering synthetic images as generators of \u201cdeep realities\u201d' and devices for conjuring hyperstitious, self-fulfilling prophecies.<\/span>\r\n\r\nFelicity Hammond presents her artistic research interrogating the meeting places of geological mining and data mining. Staged across four chapters and ending in a funeral service for artificial intelligence, the work maps how digital material makes its way from mineral to pixel, from the subsurface to the screen.<\/span>\r\n\r\nFREE admission<\/strong>. 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