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  <font 12pt/inherit;;inherit;;inherit>My modest expertise in art history, critical thinking, image production and philosophy converge in the study of the nature of images today. How we form them and access them, how they modify our cognitive processes and play a decisive role in our perception and representation of the world around us – these are central questions not only to advance conceptual and philosophical enquiry, but to sharpen our critical thinking and to reclaim an awareness and power of action in face of an ever more disruptive technology.</font> \\  <font 12pt/inherit;;inherit;;inherit>My modest expertise in art history, critical thinking, image production and philosophy converge in the study of the nature of images today. How we form them and access them, how they modify our cognitive processes and play a decisive role in our perception and representation of the world around us – these are central questions not only to advance conceptual and philosophical enquiry, but to sharpen our critical thinking and to reclaim an awareness and power of action in face of an ever more disruptive technology.</font> \\
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- <font 12pt/inherit;;inherit;;inherit>Just like lichens and saxifrages, it is by working in combination and composition, trading efficacity for resistance and solidarity that I am hoping to advance. If we could behave more often part lichen part saxifrage, it would be our imperceptible insistence and our presence as well as the quality of our composite disposition that would provide us with a truly organic artificial intelligence – nature’s capacity to morph as an evolving composite mechanism incorporating its environment into new imaginations – to invent new gestures that would “overlap and mesh together” as “these gesture will continue to coexist in unpredictable tension and cross-fertilization.”<sup>7</sup></font> \\+ <font 12pt/inherit;;inherit;;inherit>Just like lichens and saxifrages, it is by working in combination and composition, trading efficacity for resistance and solidarity that I am hoping to advance. If we could behave more often part lichen part saxifrage, it would be our //imperceptible insistence// and our //presence// as well as the quality of our composite disposition that would provide us with a truly organic artificial intelligence – nature’s capacity to morph as an evolving composite mechanism incorporating its environment into new imaginations – to invent new gestures that would “overlap and mesh together” as “these gesture will continue to coexist in unpredictable tension and cross-fertilization.”<sup>7</sup></font> \\
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  <font 12pt/inherit;;inherit;;inherit>Here is the beginning of my attempt.</font> \\  <font 12pt/inherit;;inherit;;inherit>Here is the beginning of my attempt.</font> \\
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- <font 12pt/inherit;;inherit;;inherit>Fig. 6 & 7: Author’s own photographs of lichens and saxifrages found in Robion, May 2023.</font> \\ + <font 12px/inherit;;inherit;;inherit>Fig. 6 & 7: Author’s own photographs of lichens and saxifrages found in Robion, May 2023.\\ 
- <font 12pt/inherit;;inherit;;inherit>Fig. 8: Diagram of the visible and invisible status of the image in the technical process of imagination, inspired by readings of various texts by Vilém Flusser, May 2023.</font> \\ +Fig. 8: Diagram of the visible and invisible status of the image in the technical process of imagination, inspired by readings of various texts by Vilém Flusser, May 2023.\\ 
- <font 12pt/inherit;;inherit;;inherit>Fig. 9: Diagram of the genealogy of the image in its different processes of abstraction and concretion, inspired by the readings of “A New Imagination” and various other texts by Vilém Flusser, as well as how it articulates the new generative image, AprilAugust 2023.</font> \\ +Fig. 9: Diagram of the genealogy of the image in its different processes of abstraction and concretion, inspired by the readings of “A New Imagination” and various other texts by Vilém Flusser, as well as how it articulates the new generative image, AprilAugust 2023.\\ 
- <font 12pt/inherit;;inherit;;inherit>Fig. 10: Diagram laying out the 4 types of images as presented in Vilém Flusser’s text “Images in the New Media” and various other texts of Vilém Flusser. As a question mark, the generative image - or 5th type needs to be further investigated as part of the proposed collective research. First draft 2021, last iteration August 2023.</font>+Fig. 10: Diagram laying out the 4 types of images as presented in Vilém Flusser’s text “Images in the New Media” and various other texts of Vilém Flusser. As a question mark, the generative image - or 5th type needs to be further investigated as part of the proposed collective research. First draft 2021, last iteration August 2023.</font>
  
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