MANIFESTO
We live inside an unprecedented flood of images: generative visuals, synthetic faces, 3D renderings, video leaks, livestreams, surveillance footage, memes.
Images circulate than our capacity to look at them, let alone understand them.
At the same time, we are exposed daily to images of extreme violence, domination, and power, consumed individually yet experienced .
We live inside an unprecedented flood of images: generative visuals, synthetic faces, 3D renderings, video leaks, livestreams, surveillance footage, memes.
Images circulate than our capacity to look at them, let alone understand them.
At the same time, we are exposed daily to images of extreme violence, domination, and power, consumed individually yet experienced .
Every image exists in relation to others: images that precede it, images it answers to, images it contradicts or erases.
In the age of predictive and speculative media, images not only represent the future, they actively participate in producing it.
Renderings of cities, territories, and infrastructures, for example, are used to guide genocidal, political and economic decisions, often by actors distant from the places depicted, reshaping social, environmental, and cultural realities they even exist.
We seek to these relations together, tracing the ethical, political, economic and emotional circuits that connect one image to another, and collectively producing meaning rather than receiving it passively.
Rather than asking whether an image is true or false, we ask:
What does it do? What does it connect to? What does it demand from us?
The School of the Image is a transmedia project that proposes to the act of seeing, restoring time, attention to our relationship with images through a series of lecture-performances, workshops and conferences.
Rather than treating images as objects to be consumed or verified, the project invites participants to read, dissect, and reconstruct images together, developing a shared for and predictive media, where meaning emerges collectively rather than passively received.
In the age of predictive and speculative media, images not only represent the future, they actively participate in producing it.
Renderings of cities, territories, and infrastructures, for example, are used to guide genocidal, political and economic decisions, often by actors distant from the places depicted, reshaping social, environmental, and cultural realities they even exist.
We seek to these relations together, tracing the ethical, political, economic and emotional circuits that connect one image to another, and collectively producing meaning rather than receiving it passively.
Rather than asking whether an image is true or false, we ask:
What does it do? What does it connect to? What does it demand from us?
The School of the Image is a transmedia project that proposes to the act of seeing, restoring time, attention to our relationship with images through a series of lecture-performances, workshops and conferences.
Rather than treating images as objects to be consumed or verified, the project invites participants to read, dissect, and reconstruct images together, developing a shared for and predictive media, where meaning emerges collectively rather than passively received.