What happens to an image once you can no longer assume a person made it? That is the question sitting at the center of a conversation Right Click Save hosted today as part of Creative Intelligence at the Southbank Centre, for which we are a proud media sponsor.

Our Founding Editor Alex Estorick chaired a discussion of “The Image After AI” with K Allado-McDowell, Sougwen Chung, and Jazia Hammoudi, three individuals who’ve spent recent years thinking about, and creating with, machines. Trevor Paglen’s observation that the last 15 years have witnessed two revolutions in our relationship to images — computer vision and generative AI — looms over this conversation. For Paglen, 2026 marks an “indexical flip”: the moment when the default assumption that texts and images are what they appear is overturned.

Where Allado-McDowell has written that AI tools risk taking the hand out of art, Chung embraces embodied collaboration between humans and machines. For Hammoudi, “our art history is still being written”, which is why the language we choose to discuss images after AI matters so much.

— Danielle King, Head of Community at Right Click Save

Right Click Save’s Forum section is a discussion board for the digital art community. It has attracted posts and comments on a broad range of topics, not least on AI, its creative power and potential, as well as its perils.

With this week’s newsletter focus on “The Image after AI”, the subject of a session at the inaugural Creative Intelligence Summit, where Right Click Save is a media partner, we focus on the generative artist Piter Pasma’s Forum post on “How can generative artists distinguish hand-coded art in the age of AI?”

The Right Click Save Index is a knowledge bank drawn from across the magazine’s editorial coverage. It shows how people, artworks, events, organizations, and ideas connect in our archive of more than 440 articles.

Rather than a comprehensive biography or dictionary definition, each page surfaces the salient elements from our ecosystem. Readers can access the Index from the navigation bar of the website, through the Search window, and from in-article “cards” that link to Index entries, or direct to articles in the Magazine archive.

With the digital artist Auriea Harvey last week receiving one of the first Future Art Ecosystems R&D Fellowships at Serpentine, London, and this week opening her latest gallery show, “Ready to Die”, at Heft Gallery, New York, we focus on her Right Click Save Index entry, as well as on a 2022 interview for the magazine with the curator Emann Odufu on the future of sculpture.

On September 11, 2026, the first day of the inaugural Creative Intelligence festival at Southbank Centre, London, the Creative Intelligence Summit hosted a series of talks and presentations on the themes of community, AI and world-building.