Becoming Image, the 17th edition of tactics&practice, Aksioma’s discursive programme exploring contemporary investigative art, society, and new technologies, examines the recent transformation of digital images from representational surfaces into operational environments.
It asks what it means to see, to be seen and to become visible when every act of seeing is already mediated by software – and when the distinction between image and world has begun to collapse.
From computer graphics to networked images, from computer vision to generative AI, computational systems have started shaping not only our perception of the world but also its operations and fundamental reality. As images shift from representational surfaces to active foundations on top of which global social and political systems are built, how does one make sense of and relate to this image world?
Through a series of talks, video essays, and inputs by invited artists and researchers, this symposium explores the relations between computational images and their effects on the world outside of the screen.
Participants: Alan Warburton, Felicity Hammond, Martyna Marciniak, Nina Davies, Rebecca Edwards, Sheung Yiu, Simone C Niquille, in drugi
The program will be conducted in English.
Free entry! Registration required.
CONFERENCE PART #1 @ Katedrala
17:00–19:00
- Alan Warburton: RGBFAQ / screening
- Marco De Mutiis: On Becoming Image / lecture
- Martyna Marciniak: Blobsters, Slop and Hyper-Events: Negotiating Visual Trust in a Post-Optical Era / lecture
- + conversation moderated by Marco De Mutiis and Q&A
CONFERENCE PART #2 @ Katedrala
19:00–21:00
- Sheung Yiu: It’s a Face-eat-face World / screening
- Sheung Yiu: It’s a Face-eat-face World / artist talk
- Felicity Hammond: Variations / lecture
- + conversation moderated by Marco De Mutiis and Q&A
EXHIBITION OPENING @ Kamera
21:00–22:00
- Martyna Marciniak: Anatomy of Non-Fact. Chapter 1: AI Hyperrealism
Full programme: https://aksioma.org/becomingimage/
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Tactics&Practice #17: Becoming Image
Ljubljana, February–June 2026
Organised and produced by:
Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2026
In collaboration with:
Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture
ALUO – The Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana
For the conference series:
tactics&practice
Supported by:
The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
The Municipality of Ljubljana
Italian Cultural Institute in Ljubljana
Partners:
Moderna galerija
SCCA– Center for Contemporary Arts
V-F-X Ljubljana Festival
Slovenian Cinematheque
The exhibition by Nina Davies was realised in partnership with Fotomuseum Winterthur.
