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ICONEMIA conferences are grounded in academic research while remaining adaptable to different audiences: universities, museums, schools, libraries, public institutions, cultural organizations, educators, and professional events.
Particular attention is given to younger audiences, who are among the first targets of an environment saturated by algorithmically generated and distributed images.
A new ecology of images in the age of AI.
An introduction to Iconemia and to the emergence of a visual paradigm in which images become environments rather than simple representations.
Previous presentation: Gabrielle-Roy, Québec, OBVIA event, December 2025. OBVIA reference →
45–90 min · French / English · In person or online
Invite François Giard →How attention platforms engineer perception.
How platform economies maximize engagement through image production, recommendation systems, and attention capture.
45–90 min · French / English · In person or online
Invite François Giard →How synthetic image generation challenges assumptions about authorship, truth, imagination, and visual culture.
Previous presentation: Animafest Scanner XII — International Symposium for Contemporary Animation Studies, Zagreb, June 2025.
45–90 min · French / English · In person or online
Invite François Giard →Learning to live inside the image ecosystem.
A framework for understanding images as environments that influence cognition, affect, and collective behaviour.
45–90 min · French / English · In person or online
Invite François Giard →How synthetic images transform emotional experience.
How AI-generated images reshape empathy, memory, identification, and emotional engagement.
Previous presentation: 37th Annual Conference of the Society for Animation Studies, Pittsburgh, June 15–18, 2026. Conference reference →
45–90 min · French / English · In person or online
Invite François Giard →Understanding images rather than merely producing them.
Why AI literacy requires understanding the cognitive, cultural, and ethical implications of generative imagery.
Previous presentation: ACFAS, Trois-Rivières, May 2025. ACFAS reference →
45–90 min · French / English · In person or online
Invite François Giard →