# New Bad Image

Source: https://verse.works/exhibitions/new-bad-image
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/New-Bad-Image?index=0x69fcb5cc00cad0643c41f1e76636df0c878debcc96923708a2b09f2ecf46f4fafbd12f3d
Submitted by misha on 2026-05-07 UTC, 1 upvote, 0 comments

## Summary

New Bad Image is an exhibition about how online culture reshapes identity through endless circulation, and it proposes self-made mythmaking as a counter to marketing-driven meaning. The show asks what remains of authenticity and authorship when attention is what drives attention. Many of the artists, including Parker Ito, Petra Cortright, and Ann Hirsch & Maya Man, assemble found and deteriorated web imagery. The exhibition text presents losing oneself in the infinite scroll as a way to reclaim agency.

## Article

Presented by

sssluke

Artists

Parker Ito

Petra Cortright

Evil Biscuit

mifella

Ann Hirsch & Maya Man

luhhfella

Tojiba Brand Manager

terrorism

New Bad Image explores how online culture reshapes identity through endless circulation. In a time where meaning is manufactured by marketing departments and guided by the rule that “attention makes attention,” the exhibition asks what remains of authenticity and authorship.

Many of the artists assemble found and deteriorated imagery scavenged from the web, the show proposes a counter methodology… self made mythmaking. Losing oneself in the infinite scroll becomes a generative act: a way to reclaim agency through the noise that threatens to erase it.

Text by sssluke

Notes on the New Bad Image by Brian Droitcour is published on Right Click Save.

You can mint the exhibition flyer by Andreas Gysin here.

‘identify what the algorithm wants and do too much of it. To notice how it works, and push until it breaks. To ape in so hard you achieve a state that is sub-human and not machine-readable. This is the new bad image.’

‘The new bad image isn’t a model, the way a good image is. It’s an icon that signifies what the good image is supposed to do, and how it fails.’

‘logging off is the only avant garde act left to do on the internet ’

‘inject the soul of Mifella, a local figure of great power and mystery, into your fallen friend's body. And thus, the legend of DriFella is born.’

Mint exhibition flyer here.