The course aims to analyse the images in their main components and derivations, allow managing and controlling the whole image path, from creation to processing and development according to a narrative path, increasing the knowledge about images as a project instrument to describe reality. Four topics will be developed: images as a tool for the analysis of reality, images as a means for the construction of models like reality, images as a virtual product of parallel digital realities, images as a door to deeper information that goes beyond the image itself (AR-AI generation).