# Bytesize

A taste of global media, technology and visual storytelling.

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## [High Resolution: Conversations You Watched Most](https://rotroz.substack.com/p/high-resolution-conversations-you)

_2026-08-19 · Rotem Rozental_

From questioning our relationship with technology to rethinking well-being in our lives online and IRL, here’s a roundup of interviews that drew your attention in 2026 so far

## [Your Most-Read Bytesize Essays This Summer](https://rotroz.substack.com/p/your-most-read-bytesize-essays-this)

_2026-08-12 · Rotem Rozental_

A summer encore: the three essays Bytesize readers returned to most—now open to everyone for a limited time

## [CCTV Chic, Surveillance Aesthetics and Your Front Door](https://rotroz.substack.com/p/cctv-chic-surveillance-aesthetics)

_2026-08-05 · Rotem Rozental_

The visual language of surveillance has migrated from critical and experimental art to luxury campaigns via social media. How did the front door becomes a fashion runway?

## [Made You Look: Documenting America at 250, Part II](https://rotroz.substack.com/p/made-you-look-documenting-america)

_2026-07-29 · Rotem Rozental_

Documentary photography can still teach us something about mutual responsibility, human connection, and systems of capture. Dispatches from the opening reception of Expand and Contract at the Los Ange

## [High Resolution with Dr. Jacqueline Nesi](https://rotroz.substack.com/p/high-resolution-with-dr-jacqueline)

_2026-07-22 · Rotem Rozental_

Watch now | Bytesize welcomes the psychologist and creator of Techno Sapiens for a conversation about teens, technology, mental health, and the culture produced in between

[Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207316628/2ae34f612df5f3d50e07340e641534b8.mp3)

## [Artmaxxing to the Minimum](https://rotroz.substack.com/p/artmaxxing-to-the-minimum)

_2026-07-15 · Rotem Rozental_

The forces of optimization are seeping into the art market, further complicating ideas around success and creative accomplishments

## [Erase the Finish Line: How Artists Should Reconsider Success in a Fractured Art World](https://rotroz.substack.com/p/erase-the-finish-line-how-artists)

_2026-07-08 · Rotem Rozental_

When the financial system obscures the goalposts of making it, the rules need to change

## [Why Gen Z is Falling in Love with Film Photography: Guest Essay for The Conversation](https://rotroz.substack.com/p/why-gen-z-is-falling-in-love-with)

_2026-06-29 · Rotem Rozental_

Young people’s turn to analog darkrooms is a rejection of life defined by algorithms and a demand to experience intentional human connection through technology and media

## [Something for the Weekend](https://rotroz.substack.com/p/something-for-the-weekend)

_2026-06-19 · Rotem Rozental_

If you're in LA, come hang at Ali LeRoi's walkthrough, plus a lovely review of a recently juried exhibition

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## [Eyes Wide Shut: Michals, Hockney and the Intimacy of Vision](https://rotroz.substack.com/p/eyes-wide-shut-michals-hockney-and)

_2026-06-17 · Rotem Rozental_

Notes about two beloved artists, breaking norms, shifting points of views, and enduring creative legacies