High Resolution: Conversations You Watched Most

Bytesize decodes life in the digital age, one pixel at a time, observing what happens to people when societies change how they make, store, and circulate images, and how different generations respond to such shifts. High Resolution is an ongoing series of deep-dive interviews with cultural producers, artists, scholars, entrepreneurs and professionals about their work, research and shifts they identify in global visual culture. In case you missed them, or would like to take a second—and third—look, here are the most-watched conversations so far in 2026.

#4: Cory Doctorow

Prior to the launch of his latest book, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI, I got to welcome the Canadian author, journalist, and activist Cory Doctorow to Bytesize. Doctorow coined the term Enshittification in 2023, referring to how mega-tech corporations were degrading the level of service to increase their profits. I asked him whether AI slop generates Artshitification: a flood that flows at our expense, locking us into services we cannot not use. We also discussed his concerns about the financial ramifications of the AI boom and bubble for global economies, and how he sees current visual culture.

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#3: Dr. Jacqueline Nesi

I was thrilled to recently welcome Jacqueline Nesi, PhD, author of the popular newsletter Techno Sapiens. Nesi’s research explores various facets of how technology impacts our mental health, especially when it comes to parenting.

I was eager to speak with her about AI’s impact on our communication and inner lives, our complex relationship with technology more broadly, and the generational gaps revealed in daily engagement on and offline.

#2: Assaf Dar-Sagol

The veteran music producer, composer, orchestrator, cellist, and the co-founder and CEO of Polyverse Music joined me for a deep dive into shaping a community around synthesizers and plugins, the return to analog in both audio and visual arts, and how technological systems reshape perception itself.

AI also came up in our conversation, as we explored what innovation looks like in this moment. We made some predictions about the future of the electronic music industry and what’s happening in musicians’ studios.

#1: Penelope Umbrico

It was wonderful to start the year with Penelope Umbrico, the celebrated multimedia artist, who joined me for a conversation about accumulating images from social media, what objects found online teach us about our culture, how she began looking at digital spaces and what she is interested in now.

Umbrico outlined how the digital age exists in a paradoxical space: making us feel closer while actually weakening the connections between users and reality. We explored the relationship between images and the objects they capture, selfies, and how the more we share ourselves online, the more our subjective identity disappears.

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