The research group Curating Video invite nine speakers from the fields of visual arts, art history, cultural studies, media studies, philosophy, psychoanalysis and cultural studies to explore a new matrix of issues that have become crucial to the understanding of the affect of mediated images in our lives. Rethinking the power of fact that images generate, this conference seeks to put forth new dialogues, strategies and propositions to explore what is now at stake for a politics of the mediated image.