The Spike Roundtable: Everything’s Computer

This is Spike's roundtable at the Julia Stoschek Foundation Berlin.

What's happening with image culture right now is seemingly happening faster than we can put words to it or even name it.

There's no way to assume mastery over this zeitgeist right now.

And any artist that says that they are, are lying.

There's something about an image not being seen or a fantasy not being realized that it's actually a quite big driving force in art and creativity.

I think we've solved desire and that's disastrous for humanity.

In Spike's Spring 2026 issue, Everything's Computer, we turned to a digital culture shaped by net art, Web3 and generative AI.

A culture that is fluid, murky and crackling with energy.

As Gallery Weekend Berlin drew to a close that May, the magazine brought together a roundtable on new online aesthetics.

The discussion featured writer, filmmaker and issue contributor Morgan Billois, artist-researcher Christopher Dijk-Authet and Critic and Spike contributing editor Dean Kissick.

Moderated by Spike editor-at-large Adina Glickstein, they discussed what happens to images after slop, law, and the algorithmic feed, and how, from the wreckage of the screen, new narratives, protocols, and forms of shared life are beginning to emerge.