Wednesday December 3rd 2025 at 7 PM

Book Presentation
AA.VV. Blink postfotografico. Teorie, pratiche e derive delle immagini ibride, curated by Mauro Zanchi, Postmedia Books

We are no longer confronted with contemplative or lasting images, but with fleeting visual impressions and fragments of attention that follow one another in an incessant rhythm. They lose their objectual and documentary consistency and instead take on the forms of a dynamic process and a computational trace. This fluidity is amplified by the architectures of digital platforms, where prolonged scrolling and Pavlovian swiping — amid psychic vacuum cleaners and dopamine-driven images — force us into a compulsive and superficial mode of consumption. Every blink is a fragment of attention, a micro-interaction that contributes to a visual accumulation that is difficult to assimilate. Mauro Zanchi

This collective book explores the post-photographic in its most unstable phase and is organized into four sections: the politics of the gaze, the algorithmic visions of artificial intelligence, the critique of images, and artistic positions and practices.

The essays gathered here investigate the mutating ontology of the image, its ethical and political implications, and the forms of its critical activation. At the same time, they reflect on the profound transformations introduced by recent technological innovations, which are reshaping the processes of production, circulation, and reception of contemporary images.

Book presentation with Mauro Zanchi, Aurelio Andrighetto, Sergio Giusti and Marco Paltrinieri
Wednesday 3rd December at 7 PM at Viasaterna
In the context of the group exhibition Transizioni 

Dal fotografico alle immagini ibride
curated by Mauro Zanchi in collaboration
with Aurelio Andrighetto, on view until 23.01.2026
works by
Alessandro Calabrese, Giorgio Di Noto, Teresa Giannico, Camilla Gurgone, Leonardo Magrelli, Grace Martella, Luca Massaro, Alessandro Sambini, Alberto Sinigaglia