Tactics&Practice [podcast]

Tactics&Practice [podcast]
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Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana

  1. Episode 1

    S6 [Becoming Image] E1: Who’s Still Here? [w/dmstfctn]

    Who are we when our identities are shaped through interfaces, datasets, and platforms? And what does it mean to see, to be seen, or to become visible when every act of seeing is mediated by software?  dmstfctn (Francesco Tacchini and Oliver Smith) join the podcast to discuss their decade-long collaboration exploring simulation, fiction and the hidden systems that shape contemporary digital life. Focusing on their “God Mode” trilogy and the latest artwork Big Things Coming (2026) at Chemist, London from July this year, the conversation traces a world of AI reward hacking, synthetic training data and algorithmic misbehaviour through simulated supermarkets, theatrical game engines and self-playing videogames.From image-caption datasets and the Waluigi effect to data labour, optimisation metrics and the limits of language, the episode examines how machine learning systems not only represent the world but actively reshape it. Along the way, we discuss embodiment and consciousness through the work of N. Katherine Hayles, systemic realism, the aesthetics of lossy digital environments, and why leaving language behind for something like dance might offer a way out of computational logic. RELATED LINKS https://dmstfctn.nethttps://www.instagram.com/dmstfctnGOD MODE: Episode 3: Big things coming Waluigi’s PurgatorySad Luigi game Ennuigi 1.0 by Josh Millard. Thanks to Petra Szemán for the link up!N.B in the episode I say the game is based on a sad Waluigi, but it’s actually based on a sad Luigi.COCO dataset  Grim Fandango game The paper Depressive Realism: Four Theoretical Perspectives was published in 1988 by Lauren Alloy and Lyn Abramson in the book Cognitive Processes in Depression published by Guilford Press on May 27, 1988. Quake III Arena bot COLOPHON Host: Rebecca EdwardsGuest: dmstfctnRecording: Rebecca EdwardsMusic: Gašper TorkarEditing: Rebecca Edwards, Janez Fakin JanšaAudio post-production: Oskar Kandare, Staš KramarBecoming Image podcast seriesCurated by: Rebecca EdwardsCoordinated by: Janez Fakin JanšaProduced by: Marcela OkretičProduction:Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, 2026Part of:tactics&practice#17: Becoming ImageCurated by Marco De MutiisSupported by:the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana The post S6 [Becoming Image] E1: Who’s Still Here? [w/dmstfctn] appeared first on Aksioma.

    S6 [Becoming Image] E1: Who’s Still Here? [w/dmstfctn]

  2. Episode 2

    S6 [Becoming Image] E2: Brainrot as Theory [w/Dian Joy]

    What does thinking or imaging look like when it’s optimised for scroll, repetition, and affect? When thinking itself becomes “scrollified” how do repetition, optimisation, and affect rewire imagination, compress attention, and turn imaging itself into something endlessly refreshed, looped, and platform-shaped?In this episode, London-based British-Nigerian interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker Dian Joy discusses their research-driven practice exploring subjectivity in the age of networked media and how images circulate and shape identity, desire, and perception. Drawing on film theory and Alexander Galloway’s ideas about the cinematic encounter, we ask what changes when images shift from singular cinematic events to an ambient algorithmic barrage. We discuss the research underpinning Dian’s new film work, Krumville, including a LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation algorithm) trained on screenshots from her social media feeds, and years of diarised, affective experiences that are reconfigured into a fictional town structured by hyperlink logic and the condensed language of short-form media. The conversation explores AI as a tool for rendering implicit cultural patterns and biases visible at scale, while interrogating authorship, virality and the changing conditions of media literacy in an age of dual-screen attention. RELATED LINKS https://dianjoy.mehttps://www.instagram.com/dian__joyThe Hoping MechanismKrumville premiering at AND Festival 2026 Alexander Galloway: Interface Effect Gilbert Simondon’s idea of the pre-individual is developed primarily in his major work Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information (L’individu et sa genèse physico-biologique / L’individuation psychique et collective) José Esteban Muñoz defined unconscious futurity in his book Cruising Utopia as a collective, not-yet-conscious realm of potentiality.  Günther Anders’s Promethean Shame is written about in an article titled Günther Anders’s “Promethean Shame”: Technological Ressentiment and SurveillanceCarly Busta’s essay Hallucinating sense in the era of infinity-contentJenna Bliss’s work True Entertainment in the group exhibition Genuine Fake Premium Economy at the ICA COLOPHON Host: Rebecca EdwardsGuest: Dian JoyRecording: Rebecca EdwardsMusic: Gašper TorkarEditing: Rebecca Edwards, Janez Fakin JanšaAudio post-production: Oskar Kandare, Staš KramarBecoming Image podcast seriesCurated by: Rebecca EdwardsCoordinated by: Janez Fakin JanšaProduced by: Marcela OkretičProduction:Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, 2026Part of:tactics&practice#17: Becoming ImageCurated by Marco De MutiisSupported by:the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana The post S6 [Becoming Image] E2: Brainrot as Theory [w/Dian Joy] appeared first on Aksioma.

    S6 [Becoming Image] E2: Brainrot as Theory [w/Dian Joy]
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