In a world where the digital image is no longer used as a simple medium but became an integral part of our existence and corporeality, prescribed, predicted, manipulated, fantasised, controlled, overriden, what would be our responsibility to decipher, question, dodge or reappropriate these new codes of visibility? In other words, where can we still emerge “accidents” of invisibility, shadows, porosities, disturbances that would make possible a sensitive experience of the visible in all its complexity, its margins, its poverty, its extensions and finally skimming the abysmal depth of the image surface?

We humans, notwithstanding the preponderance of the unconscious part in our mental process, have come to attribute the greatest importance to consciousness- more precisely, to the conscious pursuit of goals. This is what Bateson calls “conscious purpose”...what is more, an all too stern attachment to conscious purpose makes us neglect the “cybernetic nature of the world, a perception of which lingers somewhere in the unconscious”. Such limitation holds a danger: it may make us vulnerable to changing circumstances, since a monolithic focus on purpose is severely straining our adaptive skills.