Through a series of curatorial and discursive programmes presented as case studies, the discussion addresses pressing questions: What roles do cultural institutions and artists play in fostering public understanding and critical reflection on emerging technologies, networked image cultures, and attention economies? To what extent have recent technological, economic, and political transformations affected the roles, responsibilities, and programmes of photographic institutions? And what new methodologies, aesthetics, and formats are emerging in response?
The conversation brings together Nadine Isabelle Henrich, Senior Curator at the Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg; Kim Lê Boutin, Curator, New Ways of Seeing Festival; Marco de Mutiis, Digital Curator at Fotomuseum Winterthur; Mona Schubert, Curator at Foto Arsenal Wien; and artist and researcher Sheung Yiu.
The panel discussion is followed by a live desktop lecture performance by Sheung Yiu, I Asked the Magical Machine.
Admission is free.
November 13th 2026 (Friday)
10-11:30 am
L'Atelier 13, 75004 Paris
Reactor: Act II of A—-Z Artist Focus with Felicity Hammond ✨
Felicity Hammond with Zach Bla & Jemima Wyman, Harun Farocki, Oliver Laric, Sheung Yiu
Free but booking is essential: 🎫 🔗⬆️
A special screening with Felicity Hammond who will present her most recent film: Reactor. The film follows the voice of a military submarine gaining consciousness. The event will be accompanied by moving image pieces investigating the impact of AI in societal context and the military industry from Zach Blas, Harun Farocki to Oliver Laric, Sheung Yiu with some special surprises.
16th November 2026 (Monday)
6-10pm
Shoreditch Arts Club, 6 Redchurch St, London E2 7DD
(Inter)Faces of Predictions examines the persistent impulse to analyse and classify faces and bodies through imagery. Societies around the world have developed ways to ‘predict’ a person’s character through facial features. In East Asian cultures, the esoteric practice of face reading claims to see into one’s future through facial analysis. Though it remains largely a folk belief, many continue to seek advice from its practitioners. In the West, the controversial pseudo-science of physiognomy, combined with statistics and machine learning, re-enters our modern lives through facial recognition algorithms, perpetuating societal biases, surveillance systems and individual prejudices. The discussion will be followed by a book signing for (Inter)faces of Predictions, published by Spector Books in 2026 as part of the C/O Berlin Talent Award.
26th November 2026 (Thursday)
6:30-8:30pm
The Photographers’ Gallery