REGime des Visuellen

ALGORITHMIC AUTOCRACY

“Dead Internet”, a theory that describes the transformation of the internet from a space shaped primarily by human interaction and participation into an increasingly automated environment dominated by bots, algorithms, and machine-generated content. As the boundaries between human and automated activity become increasingly difficult to distinguish, the question arises: what happens when the systems that organise our digital environments also begin to shape who and what becomes visible, recognised, or erased?

In this course, we take the “digital borderland” as a lens through which we examine the growing entanglement of AI, militarisation and spatial control. As computational systems increasingly mediate access to information and movement they are becoming not only tools of communication but infrastructures of governance. Against a backdrop of climate crisis, technological transformation, and declining trust in institutions, we will ask how algorithmic systems redistribute power and how forms of control can become increasingly automated and difficult to contest.

Building on this, practical sessions in critical image-making will provide tools for engaging with the technological and spatial infrastructures that shape contemporary urban life. Through these practices, we will explore ways of tracing what is being erased and giving material form to what is being rendered absent.

Regime des Visuellen
Univ.Lekt. Bilal Alame DI

Mondays, 10:00-14:00
Start: 19 October 2026
Location: Seminarraum AC0440

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