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An introduction to signal theory, explaining key mathematical concepts such as ‘representation’ and ‘groups’. Max Ardito takes a technical approach to look at the constructions that produce digital images. In doing so, he asks: how does digital media age, and what influences its aging?

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3D object in a rocky, asteroid formation, on a blurry background displaying the words “alternative networks” on its surface.

A reflection into the work of Design Beku, a mesh network in Southern India, which reimagines the idea of data governance through methodologies of ethical care.

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A computer generated squeegee cleans a window

Jessica Wilson and Arieh Frosh discuss Jessica's computer generated animation "Perfectly Clear". Focusing on how the artist relates to processes and software in animation, they discuss intention and legibility across our screen-based interactions.

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3D object in a rocky, asteroid formation, on a blurry background displaying the word “abundance” on its surface.

Mónica Alcázar-Duarte reflects on how abundance in indigenous culture is in contrast with ideas of aspiration and eternal growth.

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Yung Au considers the term Activism through a retrospective lens, and how it claims to bring possible futures

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Srujana Katta considers how Community artefacts as shown through an ephemeral piece of daily life: the screenshot

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3D object in a rocky, asteroid formation, on a blurry background displaying the word “history” on its surface.

Dhruv Jani reflects on the term History, using a little-known album of seventeen images from the town of Itihasnagar

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Images are the fuel of computer vision. In this text, the sociologists and computer science researchers Miceli Milagros and Tianling Yang, discuss the performativity of ground truth data that are produced in image labeling processes.

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Per photo, digital photography is undeniably more eco-friendly than analogue film photography. However, we make orders of magnitude more photos now than in the analogue times. This article discusses the history of digital image formats and their ecological footprint.

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Blurry image of a room with a bed, windows, posters on the wall

Yani Kong and Laura Marks discuss the genre and aesthetics of small file cinema that inspired The Photographers' Gallery "Small File Photo Festival" in 2023.

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A meme of cartoon taking a selfie on a bathroom mirror "might delete soon but I felt cute in this pic"

This article speculates how photography could evolve to face the challenges that the networked image and the environmental emergency has brought forward. It suggests a radical change in the visual cultures developed along with the adoption of a new file format.

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On the first day of the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, a network of people operating DIY satellite ground stations around the world will capture a collective snapshot of the Earth.

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Rayane Jemaa's project investigating representation of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in a selection of video games, reconstructed using photogrammetry.

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3D object in a rocky, asteroid formation, on a blurry background displaying the word “activism” on its surface.

Su Myat explores the role of organisations like Myanmar Witness to consider digital evidence and how activism and photography converge in a networked world.

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"An AI-powered camera that redefines image creation. NUCA captures individuals in their purest form – no clothing, literally stripped down to their authentic selves in their natural state."

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Three images showing the camera in a location in Amsterdam, a text to image prompt, and a final AI simulated image of a street in Amsterdam

Bjoern Karmann's context-to-image camera that uses location data and artificial intelligence to visualize a "photo" of a specific place and moment.

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Overview of prompt-specific poison attack. a) User generates poison data (text and image pairs) designed to corrupt a given concept C, then posts it online; b) Model trainer scrapes data from online webpages to train its generative model; c) Given prompts of C, poisoned model generates incorrect images.

Researchers from the University of Chicago introduce Nightshade, an optimized prompt-specific poisoning attack where poison samples look visually identical to benign images with matching text prompts.

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A graphic showing the pipeline from a still 2d image of an owl to a 3d model.

A new research paper that produces consistent multi-view normal maps and correpsonding color images, and thus reconstructs high-fidelity textured mesh from a single image in only 2~3 minutes.

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A grid of images of the artist's face taken through her webcam and the Glance Back extension.

Maya Man's Glance Back will quickly snap a photo of you once a day at random when you open a new tab and inquire: “What are you thinking about?”

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photography

The Objections of Lady Lovelace: Diffusion Models and the Synthetic Muse

World Imagining Game

Small File Photo Festival

A·kin

Ways of Machine Seeing (Teachers Activities)

Models All The Way Down

Elemental Computing

The amorphous feed

On The Fermentation of Digital Media

Alternative Networks

Perfectly Clear: Interview with Jessica Wilson

Abundance

Activism

Communities

History

The Performativity of Ground-Truth Data

History and environmental impact of digital image formats

“You can’t look into my eyes.” The Aesthetics of Small-File Cinema

Delete By Default

When I image the earth, I imagine another

Is this the Middle East?

Activism

NUCA Camera

Paragraphica

Philosophy of the Digital Image

Nightshade

Wonder3D

Glance Back