(New) 12 May 2026, PEPTalks, Marloes Geboers and Gabriel Pereira

The two presentations examine how generative AI systems are haunted by the visual pasts they absorb, from war imagery amplified across social platforms to personal photos scraped into training datasets at incomprehensible scales. Marloes Geboers traces how platforms and algorithmic amplification shape what gets counted and recycled into synthetic imaginaries, while Gabriel Pereira tinkers with the automated pipelines that produce AI slop, surfacing the layers of mediation buried in them. Together, we ask what critical and creative possibilities emerge when we confront, rather than look away from, the spectral afterlives of the contemporary, algorithmic visual culture.

For the full abstracts of the talks and the zoom link, please visit the PEPTalks website.