The vast interconnection enabled by digital platforms has ended up creating more of a sense of sameness than diversity. Users are subtly guided toward the same subsets of topics, urged on by recommendations that are designed not to serve their interests but to create profitable attention fodder to sell to advertisers. Instagram doesn’t care that... See more

“a way of thinking about beauty that’s less about harmony or perfection and more about provocation, strangeness and visual interruption as a means of disrupting the homogenisation of appearance that we are currently experiencing.”

This year we tumbled headfirst into the slop-hole, a bottomless pit of mass-produced, low-effort algorithmic waste. Pumped out by generative tools like Midjourney and Sora, slop has seeped into every crushed corner of the internet, spawning thousands of images that arrive pre-stale: mushy, unformed, and shoveled into a digital trough for creatures... See more