The New Politics of Evidence
Recent debates on the dangers of synthetic media are gripped by the fear that an image might lose its value as evidence. We find comfort in trusting what we see. Tracing the production of images from military simulations to technical interfaces, can we identify what a synthetic image puts at stake?
In this lecture, Anna Engelhardt and Mark Cinkevich reflect on the political agency of evidence.
The artist duo highlights different visual regimes of Russian war crimes, broadcast on social media since 2014, in order to contextualize the shifting role of evidence and its synthetic double.
