The Visual Artist in the Post-Photographic Age
This work explores the transformation of the visual artist's role within a context dominated by technology, artificial intelligence, and generative imagery. From photography as document to image as process, the book analyses how reality is reinterpreted, augmented, and reconstructed.
Based on theoretical research and personal artistic practice, the work proposes a new perspective on the relationship between author, image, and algorithm. The volume integrates case studies from the author's practice — the series Între Timpuri (Between Times) and Puntea Necreată (The Uncreated Bridge) — with a theoretical framework articulated around the Attention–Intention–Message triad.
The book inaugurates a broader editorial project: it is Volume I of a series dedicated to the exploration of visual art under the post-photographic conditions of contemporaneity, with the research set to continue in successive volumes.
The book is published in Romanian; an English edition is currently under consideration.
The image is no longer a representation of reality — it becomes a space of construction, collaboration, and interpretation between human and technology. The artist is no longer just a creator, but a mediator between the real, the augmented, and the generated.
The evolution of photography from document to language, the transition towards digital and generative art, the human–algorithm relationship in the artistic process, and the ethics of the image in the age of artificial intelligence — illustrated through case studies and personal artistic practice.
We live in a world in which reality can be simulated, and photography is no longer evidence, but construction. The book proposes a framework for understanding this transformation — an analytical instrument for artist, curator, and researcher.
For visual artists, photographers, students, and researchers interested in the new forms of the image. For those who wish to understand not only how the image is created, but what it means in the contemporary context.
Memory, temporality, and the image in the algorithmic age. Six works proposing a poetic archive of instability.
View the series →The human gaze and the algorithmic one — from the suspended gesture to the architecture of decision. 18 works in two valences.
View the series →The book can be purchased through flavian.art — the commercial platform associated with the artistic practice.
View on flavian.art →Volume I is part of a broader research on the post-photographic image. For the entire theoretical construction, see Research →