Series: PostScriptUM #55

In our image-saturated present, we have become disconcertingly familiar with a new kind of image – affective, performative, computational – one that reorganises perception while destabilising meaning in real time. Through works by Simone C Niquille, Bassam Issa Al-Sabah, Jennifer Mehigan, and Ayoung Kim, O’Murchú traces how artists make the conditions of the image visible – exposing a regime of visibility in which the synthetic governs the real.

𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗮 𝗢’ 𝗠𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗵𝘂́ is a curator and researcher whose work explores how digital infrastructures shape culture and politics. Her curatorial practice investigates how technological systems organise power, extract value and condition collective life. She is a professor at the University of Limerick and was Artistic Director of transmediale (2020–2024). She is currently developing How to Read an Image for FACT Liverpool, a major exhibition project exploring contemporary image culture and the politics of perception.