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Image Ecology
Understanding images as environments rather than as isolated representations.
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A research program for the ecology of images.
ICONEMIA investigates how images operate as cognitive, affective, cultural, and technological environments. The project connects animation studies, image theory, generative AI, design, media philosophy, and visual literacy.
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Attention
Studying how images capture, distribute, and organize perception.
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Mediated Empathy
Exploring how synthetic and animated images transform emotional experience.
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Generative AI
Analyzing how machine-made images reshape authorship, culture, and knowledge.