Rebecca Edwards
Becoming Image [podcast]

Podcast season
10 September–5 November 2026
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Part of tactics&practice #17: Becoming Image
Curated by Marco Demutiis

On the occasion of the 17th edition of tactics&practice Becoming Image, which explores how software systems shape human action, participation, and agency, London-based curator and producer Rebecca Edwards curated and hosted this series of podcasts to expand on the topic.

This podcast explores how AI is transforming the conditions through which we perceive, interpret and inhabit the world. Across five conversations with artists, curators, writers and researchers, the series examines the ways in which machine vision, algorithmic culture, and synthetic media play into the infrastructures that mediate attention, identity and political reality.

Through discussions on AI training data and image datasets, as well as virality, interfaces, games and generative “slop”, each episode asks how images have shifted away from the representational and have found themselves as active agents that shape behaviour, desire and collective memory. Bringing together contemporary art, media theory and critical technology studies, we ask what happens when images lose their authority, become ambient and computational, and increasingly determine how we know ourselves and each other.

From the aesthetics of ‘brainrot’ and digital doppelgängers to glitches, gaming logic and dark patterns, over five episodes we’ll explore practices that operate both within and against software systems to imagine alternative ways of seeing, playing and living alongside images. We’ll be doing this with artists and theorists Dmstfctn, Dian Joy, Milia Xin Bi, Ben Grosser and Ruby Justice Thelot, with special guest Nina Davies.

RELEASE DATES:

10 Sep | Who’s Still Here?
w/ dmstfctn

24 Sep | Brainrot as Theory
w/ Dian Joy

08 Oct | Ready Player None
w/ Milia Xin Bi

22 Oct | Darker Patterns
w/ Ben Grosser

05 Nov | The Image That’s Tired
w/ Ruby J. Thelot