The
visible world overflows with pictures: more than three billion of them
stream across social media every day. This overproduction this excess
needs to be managed. Images must be stored, formatted and transported,
their flow and exchange must be organised. They require road networks
(such as internet cables) and new forms of labour (such as content
moderators and clickworkers). And they transform the way we see,
mobilising our gaze as never before. The essays and artworks in this
catalogue, by observing similar transformations currently affecting our
financialised economy in the age of cryptocurrencies, seek to grasp and
theorise this new iconomy of the visible.


This exhibition
catalogue is a collection of short texts providing a wide range of
perspectives on the economics of the image and images of the economy. A
number of classic essays have also been reproduced, in part or in full.
Includes contributions from Emmanuel Alloa, Hervé Aubron, Matthias
Bruhn, Yves Citton, Elena Esposito, Jean-Joseph Goux, Maurizio
Lazzarato, Catherine Malabou, Marta Ponsa, Marie Rebecchi, Antonio
Somaini, Peter Szendy, Leah Temper, Elena Vogman and Dork Zabunyan.