Centre for the Study of the Networked Image
Join us for a presentation by Leonardo Impett, “Workers are Leaving the Factory – world models and AI after cinema”, on Wednesday 11th March, 16:00-18:00, at The Photographers’ Gallery. Further details and book a place HERE.
The presentation will argue that video models (like OpenAI’s SORA) should not be …
Join us for an online talk/screening of AI Jetée, with Adrian Goycoolea at 14:00, 18th February 2026. This is part of the CRAIL pilot programme (convened by Tim Fransen and Marie-Josiane Agossou). More details here.
AI Jetée is a shot-by-shot, generative AI reconstruction of Chris Marker’s seminal 1962 …
Elena Marchevska has co-edited (with Laura Bissell, Jodie Hawkes) a special issue for the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, titled Matrescence and Media. It will be launched on Thursday 12 February 2026, 17.30 – 18.30 GMT, online. More details here.
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Join us for the presentation “How AI Unmakes Images – The Legal Aesthetics of Copyright,” with Séverine Dusollier and Nicolas Malevé, 18:30, 28th January 2026 at The Photographers’ Gallery. More information and to book a place here.
The rapid progress of generative AI has opened tense …
Applications for LSBU’s successful AHRC Doctoral Focal Award ADAPT-AI (with King’s College London and Guildhall School of Music & Drama) are now open, with a deadline of 13 February 2026. The programme combines research expertise in the creative industries, digital humanities, media production, and performance practice. More details and how …
Upcoming in Spring 2026, an exhibition and events curated by CSNI researcher Kendal Beynon, at The Photographers’ Gallery, 06 March – 07 June. Connection Established explores how new generations of artists are reclaiming the internet through DIY webcraft and zine-making, mapping the evolving history of online communities and inviting you …
Join Sami and CSNI for an AI prompt battle/generator slam/synthograph duel/neural combat on Wednesday 10th December, 4-6pm, BR151, 103 Borough Road, LSBU (NOTE CHANGE OF DATE!). Have a drink and a laugh whilst trying to reproduce a target-image on an AI generator and let the audience choose the winner. It’s …
Join CRAIL (Creative and Responsible AI Lab) at LSBU on Wednesday 03 Dec 2025, 5:30 – 7:45pm, at The HUB, LSBU, for a screening of The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life), followed by a Q&A with the award-winning filmmakers …
CSNI researcher Kendal Beynon and Alex Falk co-host A Crash Course in Art & Media Technology, presented by V2_.
Programme:
11/11 – Internet x Design
13/11 – Internet x Music
18/11 – Internet x Shopping
20/11 – Internet x Love
Have you ever felt a sense of marvel, bewilderment, …
Peckham Digital: Artist and Computer is a podcast exploring the evolving relationship between artists and technology. Inspired by Ruth Leavitt’s ground-breaking 1976 anthology Artist and Computer, the series revisits the original ten questions posed to early computer artists — asking a new generation how and why they use computers in …
CSNI researcher Kendal Beynon discusses internet culture on Unthinking Photography with Valentina Tanni, researcher and author of the books Exit Reality and Memesthetics. They discuss the folklore of the Backrooms, amateur content production and the use of images in online communities.
“They have grown up in a system …
New book in the DATA browser series: DECENTRING ETHICS: AI ART AS METHOD. Edited by Vanessa Bartlett, Jasmin Pfefferkorn and Emilie K Sunde. Published in 2025 by Open Humanities Press.
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The book contains commissioned essays, in conversation pieces and artistic interventions, with contributions by …
From 2002 to 2005 the Read_me Software Art and Culture festivals took place in Moscow https://lnkd.in/gNEpp7Ut, Helsinki, Aarhus https://lnkd.in/gRJBmEC3 and Dortmund http://readme.runme.org/, establishing a new scene for software art, culture and theory. In connection, the Runme.org software art repository https://runme.org/ was launched in 2003, just before platforms and …
How can folklore help us to navigate today’s digital chaos? Hear from artist Günseli Yalcinkaya in this special event at The Photographers’ Gallery, 18:30-19:45, Thursday 23 October 2025.
Internet Folklore is a study on online culture, emerging technologies, and the myths embedded within those systems. It charts the emergence of …
Peckham Digital, the South East London festival celebrating creative technology and digital art, returns from 16–19 October 2025 at Copeland Gallery with a bold programme that invites the public to explore, play, and participate in art and technology. Now in its fourth year, Peckham Digital 2025 showcases a dynamic mix …
A hybrid symposium on Saturday 4 October 2025, 12:30 to 18:00 BST, online & Borough Road Gallery, London South Bank University, 103 Borough Road, London SE1 0AA. We will share insights gathered from the ongoing ‘ServPub’ experimental book pilot project, discussing experimental tools, non-extractive practices, and shared infrastructures that resist …
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 …
Conversations on Expanded Publishing is part of .expub, 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 and experiments aimed at building an operational model for Expanded …
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 …
