Collective Scroll #3: Nostalgia

At panke.gallery, the live format Collective Scroll will explore how nostalgia takes shape online: From AI-generated pasts and pre-Covid light to Frutiger Aero and Dreamcore, we will scroll through images, aesthetics and online communities that revisit, reconstruct and often fabricate the past itself.

A growing wave of AI-generated images recreates scenes from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s: Christmas gatherings, childhood bedrooms, families watching VHS tapes in their living rooms, old computer desks and familiar streets at dusk. Drawing on recognizable visual conventions, these images produce versions of the past that feel strangely familiar, even when the scenes themselves never existed.

As these images circulate through social media, they raise questions about the relationship between memory, imagination and visual evidence. What makes a fabricated image feel like a genuine memory? What gets idealised or left out? And how can these imagined pasts shape our understanding of the present?

Join us for Collective Scroll #3.

For more details check out:
https://mudmapmagazine.com/collective-scroll-3-nostalgia-algorithms-and-synthetic-memories