‘When was the last time you felt cheated by an image?’ In this series of short audio contributions, artists, curators, researchers and experts from the field of photography and visual culture share their personal stories and intimate...
This collection of Accidental Discoveries aims to gradually map the territory of the contemporary lure of the image by identifying terms and phenomena that are connected to it. Rather than attempting to define a coherent glossary, the curatorial...
This series presents a collection of thoughts around artworks and vernacular phenomena that inspire the curatorial team of [permanent beta] in their research process around the lure of the image.
This collection of Marginalia tracks and visualises the research and readings of the curatorial team as they highlight, scribble, annotate, comment, critique and extract excerpts and ideas from articles, books and writings that influence and...
Sponge Project is a work-in-progress using a collection of ASMR sponge videos from Instagram that the artist Dina Kelberman has been amassing over the course of a few years. The videos feature POV shots of hands squishing colourful...
The Logics of the Lure is a short essay collection in which researchers and curators reflect on the principles that underlie the lure of contemporary visual culture.
Investigating strategies of seduction, repetition and...
This series presents chat conversations between curators, artists or theorists that take an image as its starting point. Encountered during an in-depth visual research or on a social media binge-watch, the images have attracted attention and...
Introduction of The Photographer's Guide to Los Santos
The video game industry has developed increasingly photorealistic worlds and characters with ever more powerful computer graphics. The seduction of such immersive environments is only matched by the lure of lifelike simulations that many game...
A Life of Its Own is a series of experimental movies in the form of webpages, consisting of found footage, collages, mashup videos, memes, GIFs and screenshots derived from popular movies, archived and organised by artist Sara...
“Computation is the New Optics” is a catchphrase coined by the computational photography research community that signifies an ongoing shift in vision technology: One in which images are no longer captured but computed, and computation has moved...
