Publications and presentations

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Publications (selected):

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• "The creative ghost in the algorithm: AI-generated photo-based images." Synthese 208, 71 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-026-05491-3

• “Trusting the documentary: the epistemic value of anthropological photography.” Manuscript under review.

• "In a critical stance: trust, manipulation, deception, and the epistemic value of social documentary photography." Manuscript under review.

• "Playing the traditions: Chiper City by SreetMax” (introductory essay). In Chiper City (photo book), by StreetMax. New York, NY: Daylight Books, 2026.

• “Photographic Abstraction in The orchard and the city” / “Abstracción fotográfica en La huerta y la ciudad.” In Matilde Carrasco Barranco (ed.), The orchard and the city: Landscape photographs in Murcia / Huerta y Ciudad: Fotografías de paisaje en Murcia. Murcia: Editum, 2021, 71–84.

• Artistic publication / photobook: Photographs in Carrasco Barranco, Matilde (ed.). The orchard and the city: Landscape photographs in Murcia / Huerta y Ciudad: Fotografías de paisaje en Murcia. Photographs by Zsolt Bátori. Murcia: Editum, 2021. (Photobook/catalogue with scholarly essays.)

• Carrasco Barranco, Matilde, and Bátori, Zs. “Introduction: The orchard and the city” / “Introducción: La huerta y la ciudad.” In Matilde Carrasco Barranco (ed.), The orchard and the city: Landscape photographs in Murcia / Huerta y Ciudad: Fotografías de paisaje en Murcia. Murcia: Editum, 2021, 1–6.

• “Photographic Manipulation and Photographic Deception.” Aisthesis 11(2) (2018): 35–47. https://doi.org/10.13128/Aisthesis-23863

• Laocoonte (journal of the Spanish Society for Aesthetics and Art Theory), vol. 5 (Dec 2018): Guest editor, “Panorama: Filosofía de la fotografía (Philosophy of Photography)” section.

• “The Philosophy of Photography: From Ontological and Epistemic Status to Interpretation.” In “Panorama: Filosofía de la fotografía (Philosophy of Photography),” Laocoonte 5 (2018): 51–55.

• “The Ineffability of Musical Content: Is Verbalization in Principle Impossible?” In Dan-Eugen Ratiu and Connell Vaughan (eds.), Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics, vol. 9 (2017) 32-45.

• “Categories of Photography.” In Fabian Dorsch and Dan-Eugen Ratiu (eds.), Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics, vol. 8 (2016): 79-88.

• “Krystina Stimakovits and Jürgen Sarge: Linger” (introductory essay). In Linger (photo book), by Krystina Stimakovits and Jürgen Sarge. Cologne, Germany: Grafische Werkstatt Druckerei & Verlag Gebr. Kopp GmbH & Co. KG, 2016.

• “Photographic Deception.” In Fabian Dorsch and Dan-Eugen Ratiu (eds.), Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics, vol. 7 (2015): 68–78.

• “The Role of Music Theory in Music Appreciation: Scientific Explanation or Interpretation?” In Fabian Dorsch and Dan-Eugen Ratiu (eds.), Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics, vol. 4 (2012): 70-82.

• “Image and Imagination.” In Fabian Dorsch, Jakub Stejskal and John Zeimbekis (eds.), Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics, vol. 3 (2011): 67-80.

• “Genre Identification and the Case of Horror.” In Alessandro Bertinetto, Fabian Dorsch and Cain Todd (eds.), Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics, vol. 2 (2010): 34-45.
   

Presentations (selected, recent years):

• “Authorship and creativity in AI-generated photo-based images” at the Annual Conference of the European Society for Aesthetics, Jyväskylä, Finland, June 9, 2026.

• “Authorship and creativity in AI-generated photo-based images” at the International Online Symposium on Human-AI Creative Workflows (1st of June 2026), Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, June 1, 2026. (https://valvevalen.github.io/HAIWorkflowsSymposium/  )

• “Failures of engagement with artworks” at the XIX Workshop on Aesthetic Experience: “Aesthetic Appreciation & Rationality: Problems and Prospects, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain, January 9, 2026.

• “Neither this, nor that: The quasi-indexical nature of AI-generated photo-based images” at the 11th Iberian Meeting on Aesthetics (SEyTA – Sociedad Española de Estética y Teoría de las Artes), University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, October 25, 2025.

• “AI-generated photo-based images: their ontological status and interpretation” at the ATS 2025: Amsterdam Trust Summit, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, August 29, 2025.

• “AI-generated photo-based images and visual literacy”, at lluminating Perspectives through Critical Visual Literacy, the 56th Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA), Center for Visual Literacies at San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA / online, November 4, 2024.

• “AI-generated photo-based images: their ontological status and interpretation”, at "MetaLAB", Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA, October 17, 2024.

• “Photographic abstraction in ‘La huerta y la ciudad’: A case study”, at the Philosophy of the City, Instituto de Filosofía – Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Madrid, Spain, October 3, 2024

• “AI-generated photo-based images: their ontological status and interpretation”, at the 10th European Communication Conference (ECC), Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 24-27, 2024.

• “AI-generated photo-based images: their ontological status and interpretation”, at the Annual Conference of the European Society for Aesthetics, Naples, Italy, June 6-8, 2024.

• “AI-generated photo-based images: their ontological status and interpretation”, at the workshop on “Inference: Critical Approaches to Visual Generative AI”, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK (online), April 22, 2024.

• “AI-generated photo-based images: their ontological status and interpretation”, at the conference “Challenging the Visual: Distrust, Emergency, Uncertainty”, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, March 14, 2024.

• “AI-generated photo-based images: their ontological status and interpretation”, at the conference “Works of Art and Technical Artifacts: Towards a Unified Account?”, University of Genova, Genova, Italy, October 23-25, 2023.

• "Failures of engagement with artworks", at the Annual Conference of the European Society for Aesthetics, Budapest, Hungary, June 29, 2023.

• “Photographic deception and trust in photographs”, at the conference on Trust and Disinformation, High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany (HLRS), August 31, 2022.

• “Photographic Deception and Visual Literacy” at the 54th Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, August 11, 2022.

• “Photographic abstraction”, at the Annual Conference of the European Society for Aesthetics, Tallin, Estonia, June 28, 2022.

• “Photographic abstraction in ‘La huerta y la ciudad’: A case study”, at The Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, 95th Joint Session, University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, UK (online), July 16-18, 2021.
   

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