02 / Research
Attention
How do images compete for perception, interrupt thought, and organize collective attention?
A research initiative
ICONEMIA
Understanding the ecology of images in the age of generative AI.
A research initiative exploring how images shape attention, knowledge, memory, and culture.
01 / Manifesto
We are entering the age of image saturation.
ICONEMIA names a condition in which images are no longer merely produced, viewed, or shared. They circulate as environments, interfaces, memories, signals, and predictive surfaces. In the age of generative AI, images are increasingly made by systems, interpreted by systems, and fed back into culture at industrial scale.
This project studies the cultural, aesthetic, political, and cognitive consequences of that transformation.
03 / Research
Memory
How do synthetic and networked images reshape personal, cultural, and institutional memory?
04 / Research
Knowledge
What happens when images become epistemic tools, evidence, simulations, and hallucinated artifacts?
05 / Research
Culture
How does generative image abundance transform visual culture, authorship, pedagogy, and public imagination?
Working definition
Iconemia is the cultural condition produced by the exponential proliferation, automation, and circulation of images across human and machine systems.
Contact
ICONEMIA is currently under development.
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