Centre for the Study of the Networked Image
Join us on Tuesday 6th May 2025, 18:30-17:00, at The Photographers’ Gallery, for The Hypothetical Image: Reading the Artifacts of Generative AI, a talk by artist, hacker and policy researcher Eryk Salvaggio. Organised by Digital x Data Research Centre. Book a place here.
How might we “read” the …
Join us on Wednesday 30th April 2025, 15-17:00 at Borough Road Gallery, for a presentation by Amanda Wasielewski entitled “The End of Photography Again: Digital Photography After AI”. All welcome.
This talk addresses the historical and theoretical concerns for the field of photography after the widespread uptake of generative AI …
A workshop for PhD students, ECRs and staff at London South Bank University on Tuesday, 8th April, 2025 [12-3, meet in Borough Road Gallery].
We walk for exercise, for leisure, for transportation, for contemplation. We walk by choice or out of necessity, with ease or with difficulty, alone or with …
Join us on Wednesday 2nd April 2025, 15-17:00 at Borough Road Gallery, for a presentation by Günseli Yalcinkaya on Internet folklore. All welcome.
This discussion will explore Yalcinkaya’s ongoing practice of internet folklore, which can be defined as the study of emerging technologies, online culture, and the myths embedded within these …
Join us on Wednesday 2nd April 2025, 12:30-14:00 at Borough Road Gallery, for a presentation by visiting researcher Lorenzo Aimo entitled “(Re)Framing GenAI from a Post-Photographic Perspective: Images Inside and Outside AI”. All welcome.
What is happening to the concept of the “image” in the era of Generative AI? This …
Join us on Wednesday 5 March 2025, 15:00-17:00, at LSBU’s XR Studio, Room LH135, The Hub, for a demo session of the technology available at our latest research facility – the XR Studio – followed by a talk by XR Studio Manager and artist Kristina Pulejkova.
This is a chance …
The Creative Coding Bookclub is a new monthly event, facilitated by Mickey and Luis, in which we aim to actively work our way through writings that inspire the reader with practical coding challenges, while sharing our journey online and in-person. The first of these will be on Wednesday 26th February, …
Tracing the intersections of AI and critical race theory, join us for a panel conversation on Thursday 20 Feb, 18:30-20:00, at Whitechapel Gallery. Ramon Amaro, Maya Indira Ganesh, and Maria Dada will use Donald Rodney’s Autoicon as a springboard, situating Rodney’s work in the social and political landscape of …
On Friday 14 February, as part of Talks on Everyday Imaging vol. 2 : The Self-Centred and the Networked, organised by the Eidolon Centre, CSNI’s Kendal Beynon (PhD researcher in partnership with The Photographers’ Gallery) will be in conversation with Olga Goriunova (Professor and Director of Research in …
The third lecture in the Virtual Realisms public series, curated by CSNI PhD researcher Teodora Sinziana Alata in collaboration with Tadej Vindis, will take place on the 6th of February 2025, 18:00-20:00, Lecture Theatre 3, at Harrow Campus, University of Westminster.
Decades after canonical media theorists predicted that new media …
Join us on Wednesday 5th Feb, 15-17:00 at Borough Road Gallery, to hear Zaiba Jabbar as she shares the journey of founding HERVISIONS, a platform that has become a vital force in reshaping digital art spaces.
This talk explores how HERVISIONS emerged as a response to the need for diverse …
The transcript of the book presentation is now published in the latest issue of Media Theory (8.2). On November 29th 2023, Whose Time Is It? Asocial Robots, Syncholonialism and Artificial Chronological Intelligence by Stamatia Portanova was presented online, with cintributions by Iain Chambers, Luciana Parisi and Tiziana Terranova, in conversation …
CSNI researcher Kendal Beynon has published a chapter in From Net, City, World to Cloud, Market, Sea: Metaphors of the Internet. The book investigates how we narrate and imagine the internet with the help of metaphors. Net stands for the connections between computers and users; city conceives cyberspace as …
We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of the free online open access journal, A Peer-Reviewed Journal About Content/Form, with contributions by Manetta Berends & Simon Browne, Kendal Beynon, Edoardo Biscossi, Luca Cacini, Pierre Depaz, Mateus Domingos, Marie Naja Lauritzen Dias, Bilyana Palankasova, Esther Rizo-Casado, …
Our partners at DARC (Digital Aesthetics Research Centre, Aarhus University) have just released the call for this year’s transmediale research workshop, everything is a matter of distance, with a deadline of 24 Nov, 2024. More information, including link to apply, at https://transmediale.de/en/news/research-workshop-2025.
In relation to transmediale’s 2025 theme, …
CSNI researcher Teodora Sinziana Alata, along with Tadej Vindis, is curating the public lecture series Virtual Realisms, taking place throughout the 2024-25 academic year at the University of Westminster, Harrow campus. The first of these takes place at 18:00 on 14th November 2024. Register here.
Pete Jiadong Qiang …
CSNI researcher Kendal Beynon, along with Alex Falk, is hosting a Crash Course, at V2_ in Rotterdam. Hybrid Event (Online/Offline). More details at https://v2.nl/events/a-crash-course-in-art-media-technology-internet-culture-x-society.
The internet and its culture have undeniably reshaped our lives and society in multifaceted ways. It has for example enabled global connectivity and brought …
Online presentation/conversation on 6th November, 18:00-20:00, organized by Exhibition Research Lab, as part of The CONTACTLESS CONDITION exhibition by Ofri Cnaani, with Annet Dekker (University of Amsterdam & CSNI), researcher/curator Dr. Daniela Agostinho (Aarhus University), and moderated by Prof. Joasia Krysa (LJMU).
Inspired by the works in the exhibition, the …
Join us on Thursday 7th Nov at 18:00 for an online conversation between Bassam El Baroni, Patrizia Costantin and Parastoo Jafari about the connections between curating and ‘archipelagic thinking’. This event is organised by recent graduates of MA Curating Art & Public programmes (LSBU & Whitechapel Gallery) in the context …
We are looking for a Research Assistant (0.4FTE) in GenAI & Visual Literacy. The position is offered in the context of the project “Ways of (Machine) Seeing: towards a new visual literacy in AI” supported by Responsible Ai UK Skills Programme, in collaboration with UCL Institute of Education, Justice Matrix …
