(…) Image as a dominant communication form of the modern day is analysed every two years by the Riga Photography Biennial, and this year its central event is the Screen Age II: Landscape international group exhibition at Riga Art Space. Exhibition curators Inga Brūvere and Marie Sjøvold have focused on digital landscapes, interpreting ‘landscape’ in a very broad sense as the material and biological environment around us and not in its narrowest sense as a panoramic view of nature that takes the viewer’s breath away and provides an aesthetic experience. The exhibition draws attention to how ever newer technologies and their availability, usage and aesthetics change our relationship with the world around us. Do changing external forms and devices also alter the potential mental image and its likely association with our sense of the world and aesthetic needs? Or perhaps this link works in the opposite direction? (…)