ICONEMIA conferences are grounded in academic research while remaining adaptable to different audiences: universities, museums, schools, libraries, public institutions, cultural organizations, educators, and professional events.
Particular attention is given to younger audiences, who are among the first to grow up inside an environment saturated by algorithmically generated and distributed images.
Understanding ICONEMIA
A new ecology of images in the age of AI.
An introduction to Iconemia and to the emergence of a visual paradigm in which images become environments rather than simple representations.
45–90 min · French / English · In person or online
Invite François Giard →GAFAM Saturation
How attention platforms engineer perception.
How platform economies maximize engagement through image production, recommendation systems, and attention capture.
45–90 min · French / English · In person or online
Invite François Giard →Generative AI and the End of Representation
How synthetic image generation challenges assumptions about authorship, truth, imagination, and visual culture.
45–90 min · French / English · In person or online
Invite François Giard →Image Ecology
Learning to live inside the image ecosystem.
A framework for understanding images as environments that influence cognition, affect, and collective behaviour.
45–90 min · French / English · In person or online
Invite François Giard →Mediated Empathy
How synthetic images transform emotional experience.
How AI-generated images reshape empathy, memory, identification, and emotional engagement.
45–90 min · French / English · In person or online
Invite François Giard →AI Literacy Beyond Prompt Engineering
Understanding images rather than merely producing them.
Why AI literacy requires understanding the cognitive, cultural, and ethical implications of generative imagery.
45–90 min · French / English · In person or online
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