Sebastian Rozenberg

PhD student

I study the experience and aesthetics of digital images online; the networked images we experience everyday through our screens.

Appearances and Experience of Computation: A Format Phenomenology

My project aims to articulate and explore a phenomenology of formats in computational media, using a media philosophical approach to unveil and inscribe how visual computational forms and processes constrain and shape experience and appearance. To this end I make focused analyses of the smartphone homescreen, multimodal transformer/diffusion models for text-2-image generation, and automated aesthetic ratings in multimodal models (eg CLIP, Laion aesthetic). The work is interdisciplinary and spans media aesthetics, media philosophy, critical theory, aesthetics, phenomenology and media theory.

CV

Previous education

MA Aesthetics, Södertörn University

MS Archives and Information Science, Mid Sweden University

BA Film Studies and Art History

Network

AIsthesis – network for research on the aesthetics of AI imagery

Publications

2025

Sebastian Rozenberg (2025) Latent Space as Medium and Constitutive Format

2024

Sebastian Rozenberg (2024) Formatting and Mediating Similarity: Determination and Indetermination in Synthetic Images.

Sebastian Rozenberg (2024) Generic and Flat Ensembles: The Appearance of Discretisation in Everyday Visual Media 2024: Book of abstract: Intermedial Networks: The Digital Present and Beyond (Conference paper)

Sebastian Rozenberg (2024) From Continuous to Discrete to Continuous: Text-to-Image Models as Limit to Indeterminate Phantasy Technophany, Vol. 2, p. 1-23 (Article in journal)

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2023

Sebastian Rozenberg (2023) Visual and Invisual Images of the City: Aesthetic and Operational Relations in Google Maps

2021

Sebastian Rozenberg (2021) Relational Materialism and Technoecological Sense: A Philosophical Approach to Digitisation Critical Digital Art History: Interface and data politics in exhibitions, museums and collections (Conference paper)

Sebastian Rozenberg (2021) Digital records as relational objects: Yuk Hui's concept of digital objects applied to archival science Archival Science, Vol. 21, p. 193-218 (Article in journal)

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Research

Culture and society (Tema Q)

Tema Q/Culture and Society research environment is an interdisciplinary unit that seeks to foster a critical outlook on the multiple roles played by culture in society, in the present as well as in the past.

Organisation

Division of Culture, Society, Design and Media (KSFM)

The division conducts problem-oriented cultural science research and teaching at the intersection of the humanities and social sciences.

Department of Culture and Society (IKOS)

At the Department of Culture and Society (IKOS), social sciences and the humanities gather in environments where research and education work together.

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Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FILFAK)

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences provides education and research in humanities, social- and behavioral sciences, commercial law, art disciplines and thematic science.