Contents

  1. Anger, loathing and disbelief

    survey

    a reflection on moral decay – showing how synthetic visuals exploit, distort reality, and evoke real emotional unease.

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  2. Rate My Cake

    artwork

    Desire doesn’t speak in full sentences; it leaks, stains, lingers. Many people hide what they want to make themselves appear controlled, tidy. Desire has a way of revealing the parts we’re told to conceal, the gluttonous, the needy, the tender rot beneath restraint.

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  3. Pre-verbal Optical Pleasure

    survey

    A reflection on nostalgia, materiality, and the shifting nature of visual pleasure, as Alan Warburton connects childhood memories to the intuitive, alchemical world of generative AI and its echoes of CGI’s evolution.

    by Alan Warburton, 2025, © Respective owners
  4. Pretty in Pink

    artwork

    Pretty in Pink is a series of image-based, life-size 3D printed sculptures that examine the digital objectification of the female body and its embedded codes of desire and violence. The work builds on a background in architecture and 3D visualization, combined with ongoing research in photography and image theory at ECAL.

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  5. A song from void

    artwork

    Rooted in fascination with Japan and its fetishized portrayal, this digital Japonisme evokes both admiration and a deep sense of melancholy.

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  6. A strange surreal mundanity

    survey

    A reflection on a surreal AI-generated image of the Pope, exploring digital mundanity, imagination, and the emotional politics of synthetic imagery.

    by Pablo Xavier, © Respective owners
  7. We point the lens back

    survey

    The british artist reflects on how to understand what it looks like when we point the lens back at the cameras that surveil us.

    by Felicity Hammond, © Respective owners
  8. Money Making Child

    artwork

    “Money Making Child” exposes the dark side of sharenting and child influencers. Through AI-generated images, it reveals how children, often girls, are commercialized, sexualized, and deprived of real childhood.

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  9. Something like any other belief system

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    Paolo Cirio on the unseen power of images—how their context, creation, and circulation provoke emotion and demand critique.

    made with X’s AI chatbot image generator Grok promoted by Elon Musk by Paolo Cirio, February 2025, © Respective owners
  10. Blind cats

    artwork

    The project explores the intersection of entertainment, violence, and propaganda in today’s world, where the boundaries between reality and virtuality have merged.

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  11. Beauty & The Beep

    survey

    Nothing is as it seems. Be suspicious of normality.

    Beauty & The Beep by Simone C Niquille, 2024, © Respective owners