Abelardo Gil-Fournier & Jussi Parikka – Living Surfaces
#1 min Michal Šimůnek
5. 2. 2026
In Living Surfaces, Gil-Fournier and Parikka conceive of plants and landscapes as media-permeable systems where ecological processes and image technologies interconnect. The book's key concept is the surface. From a genealogical perspective, the authors demonstrate how, from the 18th century (botanical experiments, greenhouses) through the 19th century (plant photography, aerial landscape images) to contemporary multispectral and satellite mapping, the understanding of Earth's “living surfaces” is formed through images. Imaging here becomes a cultural technique for interpreting, measuring, and managing living environments. In this sense, the book can be viewed as another contribution to the discussion on operational images—their logic here merely shifts to plant and landscape surfaces documented, monitored, and controlled through images.
Text | Michal Šimůnek
Michal Šimůnek
#1 min Sasha Kurmaz, Michał Sita
Sasha Kurmaz – Codes of Violence: Visual Diary
Artistic diary by Sasha Kurmaz, developed since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, has just been published in the book form. The project consists of an ever-expanding set of approximately 500 collages, juxtaposing fragments of photographs, drawings, and images—visual material drawn from public space under the conditions of a war unfolding all around.
#3 min Barbora Čápová
Authenticity
We all want to be authentic. We yearn for authentic relationships and experiences. We share such moments and seek information we can trust. Yet the more we try to grasp hold of authenticity, the more it slips through our fingers. At its heart is a tension constantly renegotiated in response to our personal, societal, and technological evolution.
#2 min Josef Moucha
Negatives from the Trash 1900–1945
#2 min Claudie Larcher
AI and the Art of Historical Reinterpretation – Filling Gender Bias Gaps
#1 min Michal Šimůnek
Bergit Arends – Photography, Ecology and Historical Change in the Anthropocene
#1 min Michal Šimůnek
Siobhan Angus – Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography
#1 min Michal Šimůnek
Jussi Parikka – Operational Images. From the Visual to the Invisual
#15 min Michal Šimůnek
Daguerreotype Excursions into the Present
Photography and the tourist set out almost simultaneously on a journey through history on the threshold of modernity. They walk together and transform each other through mutual interactions. I follow these changes from the perspective of the tourist gaze, asking myself where the tourist’s gaze is directed from and what it is directed at. I search for answers in the story of a single daguerreotype of the Niagara Falls, captured in 1840 by Hugh Lee Pattinson.