The Human Economy Behind Platform-Ready AI Slop, with Martin Degeling and Salvatore Romano. Synthetic Social Media: Studying Platform-Embedded AI, University of Siegen. Siegen, Germany. 22–25 September 2026.
Tagged “GenAI Imagery”
(Im)Material Problems. Challenges in Researching AI with Digital Methods in the Time of AI, with Richard Rogers. EASST2026 More than now: exploring resilient futures, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology. Krakow, Poland. September 8-11, 2026.
AI and its (Dis)Contents: Methods of Mapping AI as and with Digital Media, with Ruchard Rogers and Natalia Sánchez Querubín. Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital, King’s College London. London, UK. 23–26 June 2026.
Artificial Elections 2.0: Exposing the Use of Generative Al Imagery in the 2026 French Municipal Election campaigns, with Miazia Schueler, Martin Degeling, Salvatore Romano. AI Forensics. 2026.
The Human Guide to Detecting AI Imagery. AI Forensics. 2026.
Prompt, Upload, Repeat: The Clutched Entanglement of Platform Economy and Governance in the Face of Agentic Al Accounts, with Martin Degeling, Salvatore Romano, Raziye Buse Çetin, Miazia Schueler, Silvia Semenzin. PlatGovNet 2025: Transitions, frictions and new realities in global platform governance. Online. December 1, 2025.
Networked artifacts analytics: Interdisciplinary methods of investigating synthetic AI imagery. Seeing Through Complexity: Entanglements in Visual Cultures, ECREA Visual Cultures Section. Online. 6 November 2025.
Prompt, Upload, Repeat: How Agentic AI Accounts Flood TikTok with Harmful Content, with Martin Degeling, Salvatore Romano, Raziye Buse Çetin, Miazia Schueler, Silvia Semenzin. AI Forensics, 2025. Also online as a Preprint.
Platformatted Hype: How to Operationalize the Formalities of AI ‘Slop’. (DON’T) BELIEVE THE HYPE, Hype Studies. Barcelona, Spain. 10–12 September 2025.
Generating Algorithmic Virality: How synthetic AI imagery and agentic AI accounts try to game TikTok and Instagram, with Martin Degeling, Salvatore Romano, Buse Ryze Çetin, Miazia Schueler, Silvia Semenzin. AI Forensics, 2025. Also online as a Preprint.
The Death of an Image - Again? Using the ‘Digital Forensic Gaze’ to See (like) Deepfakes, with Richard Rogers. Ethics and Aesthetics of Artificial Images. IUAV University of Venice. Venice, Italy. 8–10 May 2025.
Panelist, The Role of AI in Political Elections. For AI & Politics RPA, University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 15 November 2024.
Artificial Elections: Exposing the Use of Generative AI Imagery in the Political Campaigns of the 2024 French Elections, with Salvatore Romano, Miazia Schueler, Buse Ryze Çetin, Sonia Tabti, Marc Faddoul, Ibis Lilley. AI Forensics, 2024.
What Do Deepfakes Want? Using the ‘Digital Forensic Gaze’ and Digital Methods to See (like) Deepfakes, with Richard Rogers. For ‘Digital Methods Summer School and Data Sprint 2024: Visual methods for digital research’, Digital Methods Initiative. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 1–5 July 2024.
Workshop co-organizer,EU Parliamentary Election ‘VERIFICATHON’ Workshop, with Salvatore Romano and Miazia Schueler. For University of Amsterdam, AFP, and AI Forensics, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 6–7 June 2024.
Wor(l)d-Image Trans-formation: Looking Through DALL-E 2 and Midjourney. In La Valle dell’Eden #41: ‘The algorithmic images between media, art, and society’, University of Turin. 2023.
AI Art - Are We There Yet? Generative AIs as Actors and Actants across the Digital Vernacular. Technology, Art, and the Posthuman: The End or a New Beginning for Humanism? Conference, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 13–14 May 2023.