{"id":1172,"date":"2025-02-07T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aksioma.org\/ayasu\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2026-03-04T16:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:16:25","slug":"blobsters-slop-and-hyper-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aksioma.org\/becomingimage\/symposium\/blobsters-slop-and-hyper-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Blobsters, Slop and Hyper-Events: Negotiating Visual Trust in a Post-Optical Era"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"606\" src=\"https:\/\/aksioma.org\/becomingimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/talk_Martyna-Marciniak.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aksioma.org\/becomingimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/talk_Martyna-Marciniak.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/aksioma.org\/becomingimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/talk_Martyna-Marciniak-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aksioma.org\/becomingimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/talk_Martyna-Marciniak-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In her talk, Martyna Marciniak unpacks the complex landscape of synthetic image misinformation from 2018 until now by applying strategies informed by her forensic practice and a deep fascination with glitches and errors. By tracing the various visual mechanisms of manufacturing belief and trust, informed by Catholic Church aesthetics, media history and technomyths, selected synthetic images unfold as deep repositories of technical and cultural knowledge. The presentation allows for contemplation, reconsideration and reorganisation of the visual language of trust, evidence and attention.<br><br>In the second part of the talk, the artist considers synthetic images as generators of \u201cdeep realities\u201d and devices for conjuring hyperstitious, self-fulfilling prophecies. Countering the prevailing dichotomy of the \u201creal vs fake\u201d (an unwelcome gift of post-Trumpian parlance), a project-specific lexicon is employed as an attempt to identify the operational functions of synthetic images, their aesthetic nuances and finally as a practice of undoing the popularised yet harmful anthropomorphisation of the AI concepts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her talk, Martyna Marciniak unpacks the complex landscape of synthetic image misinformation from 2018 until now by applying strategies informed by her forensic practice and a deep fascination with glitches and errors. 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