The way we deal with images has dramatically changed in the age of Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, wherein images circulating on digital networks have become the most significant means of personal expression for an extended public. This panel discussion between Sarah Nankivell (FA), Lara Baladi, and Philip Scheffner elaborates on how artists explore and consider the usage, semantics, and affective dynamics of social media images alongside their aesthetic qualities.

This event is part of the programme of the exhibition Affect Me: Social Media Images in Art, on view at KAI10 | Arthena Foundation in Düsseldorf until 10 March 2018. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue are produced in close cooperation between KAI 10  and the research project “Affective Dynamics of Images in the Era of Social Media” at CRC “Affective Societies”, Freie Universität Berlin.