Tactics&Practice #17: Becoming Image | Workshop at ALUO 1/3

The 17th edition of Tactics&Practice: Becoming Image, Aksioma’s discursive programme exploring contemporary investigative art, society and new technologies, that will take place from February to June 2026, in cooperation with Kino Šiška and Academy of Fine Arts and Design (UL ALUO), examines the recent transformation of digital images from representational surfaces into operational environments. All three workshops in this year’s program will take place at UL ALUO, Tobačna 5.

What does it mean to inhabit a computational world-turned-image? When photographs no longer capture but composite, when renders replace recordings, when machine vision dictates what is permitted, and when synthetic media generates realities untethered from any physical referent – how do we understand vision, identity and presence?

The programme investigates how computational photography, machine vision, CGI and generative AI have fundamentally altered the ontological status of the image – no longer a window onto the world but a world unto itself.

Participants: Alan Warburton, Felicity Hammond, Martyna Marciniak, Nina Davies, Rebecca Edwards, Sheung Yiu, Simone C Niquille, and others

Curator: Marco De Mutiis

This year’s edition comprises three program sections consisting of exhibitions, lectures, workshops, and a symposium. UL ALUO particularly recommends all three free workshops, as they will take place at the Video, Animation, and New Media (UL ALUO, Tobačna 5) and are primarily intended for students of art and design.

The entire Tactics&Practice #17 program: https://aksioma.org/becomingimage/sl/

Free entry, registration required: https://pretix.eu/aksioma/becomingimage/

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WORKSHOP

Nina Davies: Generated Choreographies

Wednesday, 25 Februar 2026, 4 PM
UL ALUO, Video, Animation and New Media, Tobačna 5, Ljubljana

Generated Choreographies is a performance workshop by a Canadian-British artist Nina Davies, which explores movement in relation to generated videos, deep fakes, and AI interrupted memes. Through a series of choreographic exercises, the workshop will support participants to explore how generated footage can be simulated by the body rather than computational devices.

To begin the workshop, Davies will introduce methods she has used to mimic digital processes within the body as well as present some AI videos for participants to scan through and find re-creatable choreographies from. Following this, she will demonstrate and teach the group a short repertoire of movements drawn from popular generated videos found on TikTok and other shortform video platforms.

Participants will then break out into smaller groups to explore creating their own choreographic phrases inspired by generated videos of their choosing. To conclude the workshop, participants will present what they have made and collectively discuss where these sets of movements could be used in everyday life to alter our perceptions of events.

Takeaways:

An understanding of how new image technologies affect the way we might move
Learn methods of evading surveillance technology using dance
Authorship of fakeness

Related events:

ARTIST TALK

Nina Davies: Synchronising with Images

Tuesday, 24 Februar 2026, 6 PM
Moderna galerija, Cankarjeva 15, Ljubljana

EXHIBITION

Nina Davies: Image Syncers

25 February-25 March 2026 (Opening: 25 February at 8 PM)
Aksioma | Project Space, Komenskega 18, Ljubljana

Artistic director: Janez Fakin Janša
Head of production: Marcela Okretič
Production assistant: Ema Maznik Antić
Promotion and social media management: Neža Bukovec, Dominika Maša Kozar, Sara Vatovec
Web developer: Igor Kovačić
Visual identity: Federico Antonini
Bumper: Lara Reichmann (video), Gašper Torkar (music)

Coordination at Kino Šiška: Jasna Jernejšek
Technicians: Valter Udovičić, Matej Marinček, Matevž Ftičar

Organised and produced by:
Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2026

In collaboration with:
Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture
ALUO – The Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana

For the conference series:
tactics&practice

Supported by:
The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
The Municipality of Ljubljana
Italian Cultural Institute in Ljubljana

Partners:
Moderna galerija
SCCA– Center for Contemporary Arts
V-F-X Ljubljana Festival
Slovenian Cinematheque