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14/01/2026

Maybe it’s too late to deal with the deluge of AI-slop by training people to be media savvy?

Even experts can’t tell what’s made by A.I. So what happens to trust now?

02/09/2025

22/05/2025

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13/03/2025

US army is deleting images showing diversity in its data bases. Rewriting visual history, rewriting visual memory.

Die US-Streitkräfte entfernen Zehntausende Fotos von ihren Internetseiten – auf Anordnung der Trump-Regierung. Das könnte Illusionen im kollektiven Gedächtnis der USA erzeugen, warnt ein Bildhistoriker.

16/02/2025

As you know, VisComX is no longer active as a research center and only few people remain following this page. In the light of recent events we will no longer be active on X or Meta sites.

18/05/2024

Guardian: 38 images that changed the way we see women.

Shocking, arresting and extraordinary photographs that shifted how women are seen in the world

12/02/2024

Truly sad news. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.

According to the source, Van Miegroet’s next of kin, students and department chair were notified of his death. 

10/09/2023

Professor Roy F. Baumeister is considered one of the most influential social psychologists in the world. As a "Mercator Fellow", the scientist spends several months throughout the year researching and teaching at the Research Training Group "Social Dynamics of the Self" at our very own Constructor University and the University of Bremen. The social psychologist was awarded the Distinguished Scientist Award by the Society for Experimental Social Psychology (SESP) this year.

10/09/2023

An exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University curated by ChatGPT may inspire curators as much as the audience in trying to make sense of it.

When Duke University’s art museum asked ChatGPT to organize an exhibition, it chose some unexpected artworks. But it also mistitled objects and wrote errant descriptions.

18/05/2023

The question for the justices was whether the artist was free to use elements of a rock photographer’s portrait of the musician Prince.

15/03/2023

ChatGPT now takes images as input

All aboard the hype train.

22/12/2022