This thematic line navigates mediated environments, highlighting the impact of media and (visual) cultures’ lenses and tools on how we shape and make sense of the world around us.
The theme includes a diversity of research subjects, ranging from character dynamics for games to imagining critical digital infrastructures, through which artistic and creative researchers contribute to media prototypes and narratives beyond the technological efficiency and techno-centric solutionism of mainstream media practices. The research under this theme produces new relationships with media, culture and technology, but also sees mediatized encounters as crucial to making sense of yet-to-be-defined (im)material realities.
Testing the QV tool with Tara Karpinski: in the QV tool, people express the degree to which they are for or against an issue
Video still from 'It Happened Tomorrow, Tiny Cli-Fi for Living with Higher Waters', a video series by Carlo De Gaetano that remixes public domain materials from the Sound & Vision archives, inspired by conversations and drawings from a series of workshops to explore human and more-than-human relationships with water in the Netherlands.
'Queer as the Ocean' portrait series: investigates interspecies relationships within aquatic environments (with generative AI as a device for climate fiction) by Carlo De Gaetano
'Mediated Encounters' work session at the PD A+C Symposium 2025: reflecting on how we project meaning onto machines and how artistic research can challenge dominant tech narratives (picture by Barbara Medo)
'Mediated Encounters' work session at the PD A+C Symposium 2025: reflecting on how we project meaning onto machines and how artistic research can challenge dominant tech narratives (picture by Barbara Medo)
'Mediated Encounters' work session at the PD A+C Symposium 2025: reflecting on how we project meaning onto machines and how artistic research can challenge dominant tech narratives (picture by Barbara Medo)
'Mediated Encounters' work session at the PD A+C Symposium 2025: reflecting on how we project meaning onto machines and how artistic research can challenge dominant tech narratives (picture by Barbara Medo)