
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.
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Previous education
MA Aesthetics, Södertörn University
MS Archives and Information Science, Mid Sweden University
BA Film Studies and Art History
Publications
2024

2023
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