ℹ️ Please note that the event will be held in a hybrid format.

In this talk, I will present the key principles and preliminary findings of the ERC project, ‘Visual Trust’. Reliability, accountability and forgery in scientific, religious and social images (2021-2027, PI: Roger Canals). This comparative project aims to investigate, through visual and experimental methods, how individuals from different socio-cultural milieus relate to and through images in terms of trust and mistrust. The project brings together a variety of images, including photojournalistic pictures, digital fakes, religious icons, AI-generated images, astronomical images and medical imaging. The session will include a screening of some of the project’s visual outcomes. I will also provide definitions of key project concepts such as ‘visual trust’, ‘eclectic assemblage’ and ‘visual assessment’.