Centre for the Study of the Networked Image
Culure Machine Vol. 25 is guest-edited by Alexandra Anikina, Johannes Bruder, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Stephen Cornford, Kwame Phillips & Geoff Cox. Full description of call, and details of how to submit, can be found at https://culturemachine.net/vol25-cfp-university-as-infrastructure/.
Universities have become increasingly dependent on a proliferation of outsourced services, database providers …
CSNI is hosting Transart Institute’s Anthologies Assembly, a series of presentations and exhibitions of practice-based research, 14-18 July at Borough Road Gallery, 103 Borough Road, London SE1 0AA. This includes presentations by PhD researchers from Transart and CSNI, some of which are open to the public. Please register via this …
Happy to have contributed to Conversations on Expanded Publishing, part of .expub, an ongoing research and practice led by a consortium of artistic and independent publishers experimenting with new and hybrid publishing formats. Over two years, the Institute of Network Cultures, Aksioma, Echo Chamber, and Nero Editions conducted projects …
Have you ever wanted to imagine an alternative web culture? Join this collective zine workshop on Saturday 19 July 2025 at The Photographers’ Gallery, led by Daniel Murray and CSNI’s Kendal Beynon. Further details at https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/zine-workshop-what-internet-made
Using a mix of digital media and handcraft, participants can work solo or in …
Join us for this launch event at The Photographers’ Gallery on Saturday 28 June, 14:00-17:30, aimed at those interested in art education and the potential for creative and critical use of image-based Generative AI in the secondary school classroom. Free, but please book a place.
The Ways of [Machine] Seeing…
Please join us for the first annual conference of the Digital x Data Research Centre, 03-04 July 2025, at London South Bank University.
How do different disciplinary traditions approach the concept of infrastructure, and what can we learn from the intersection(ity) of positions?
Keynotes by Orit Halpern (Professor and …
The final 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 12th of June 2025, 18:00-20:00, in the Fabrication Lab, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS.
This lecture traces the long-standing …
The fifth 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 8th of May 2025, 18:00-20:00 in the Fabrication Lab, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road London NW1 5LS.
In an age of ecological …
Congratulations to Marloes de Valk for passing her PhD in April. The Image at the End of the World: Communities of practice redefining technology on a damaged Earth examines alternative approaches to technology that have less destructive effects on the environment, such as permacomputing, slow tech, and more. The project …
Join us on Tuesday 6th May 2025, 18:30-20:00, 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 …
The fifth 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 10th of April 2025, 18:00-20:00 in the Fabrication Lab, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road London NW1 5LS.
The Anthropocene, the geological epoch …
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 …
Unfortunately due to illness, this event is cancelled. Sorry. 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 …
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 …
