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Introduction of Cheated by an Image
‘When was the last time you felt cheated by an image?’ In this series of short audio contributions, artists, curators, researchers and experts from the field of photography and visual culture share their personal stories and intimate...
Introduction of Accidental Discoveries
This collection of Accidental Discoveries aims to gradually map the territory of the contemporary lure of the image by identifying terms and phenomena that are connected to it. Rather than attempting to define a coherent glossary, the curatorial...
Introduction of Unfinished Thoughts
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This series presents a collection of thoughts...
Introduction of Marginalia
This collection of Marginalia tracks and visualises the research and readings of the curatorial team as they highlight, scribble, annotate, comment, critique and extract excerpts and ideas from articles, books and writings that influence and...
Introduction of Sponge Project
Sponge Project is a work-in-progress using a collection of ASMR sponge videos from Instagram that the artist Dina Kelberman has been amassing over the course of a few years. The videos feature POV shots of hands squishing colourful...
Introduction of The Logics of the Lure
The Logics of the Lure is a short essay collection in which researchers and curators reflect on the principles that underlie the lure of contemporary visual culture. 
Investigating strategies of seduction, repetition and...
Introduction of The Conversational Image
This series presents chat conversations between curators, artists or theorists that take an image as its starting point. Encountered during an in-depth visual research or on a social media binge-watch, the images have attracted attention and...
Introduction of A Life of Its Own
A Life of Its Own is a series of experimental movies in the form of webpages, consisting of found footage, collages, mashup videos, memes, GIFs and screenshots derived from popular movies, archived and organised by artist Sara...
Introduction of duckrabbit.tv
“Computation is the New Optics” is a catchphrase coined by the computational photography research community that signifies an ongoing shift in vision technology: One in which images are no longer captured but computed, and computation has moved...
Introduction of Events
Along with the online platform of [permanent beta], the curatorial research on the lure of the image unfolds through a series of international events. Hosted by partner museums, schools and festivals, the curatorial team presents specific...
Introduction of Image – Lure – Typology
In this series of essays, invited authors examine different kinds of vernacular images and image practices that entice and beguile us. Focusing on contemporary image phenomena like memes, ASMR, dick picks and clickbaits, the texts shed light on...
Introduction of The World Is Beautiful Again
The World Is Beautiful Again takes its playful starting point in the 1928 photobook Die Welt ist schön (The World Is Beautiful) by German photographer Albert...