The exhibition All I Know Is What’s On The Internet at The Photographers’ Gallery in London, presents the work of 11 contemporary artists and groups seeking to map, visualise and question the cultural dynamics of 21st Century image culture. It is curated by the CSNI researcher Katrina Sluis, whom you can …
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Professor Andrew Dewdney has published a book review in the forthcoming issue of Journal of Design History about ‘Memories of the Future: On Countervision’ edited by Dr. Stephen Wilson and Deborah Jaffe.
Read an excerpt here: …
Last March, the CSNI PhD researcher Lozana Rossenova took part in the panel ‘Curation and Power’, with Jessica Ogden, Anisa Hawes, Margaret Hedstrom and Morehshin Allahyari, at the National Forum on Ethics and Archiving the Web, NYC (22-24 March 2018).
Watch the video documentation here:
https://vimeo.com/277336006…
The second annual CSNI Summer School took place in the 7th of June at Jerwood Space in London and it was a rich day of presentations and discussions. This year’s invited speakers included Dr. Geoff Cox and Dr. Magda Tyżlik-Carver who presented their current research projects and responded to the …
CSNI associate researchers Adam Brown and Alan Warburton, along with the game designer Tabea Iseli, were this year’s winning team of the P3: Post-Photography Prototyping Prize! Brown, Warburton and Iseli worked under the theme of ‘Generative Photography’ and created the prototyping project Freezing the Photographer.
Annet Dekker recently published her new book, Collecting and Conserving Net Art, which explores the qualities and characteristics of net art and its influence on conservation practices. By addressing and answering some of the challenges facing net art and providing an exploration of its intersection with conservation, the book casts …
Alan Warburton’s work Homo Economicus is part of a new exhibition at the Somerset House Studios which questions the implications of producing, collecting and sorting data for society and the individual. The exhibition, titled Complex Values, includes the works of three resident artists at the Somerset House Studios: Alan …
What does photographic curation mean in an era of the fluid image and during a time of non-medium specificity?
On the 2nd of June 2018, Katrina Sluis, CSNI Researcher and Digital Curator at The Photographers’ Gallery, spoke in the ‘Encounters: Photography and Curation’ symposium – a collaboration between The Photographers’ …
On the 10th of May 2018, Professor Andrew Dewdney presented a talk with the title “What Is The Current Fascination With VR On The Part Of Museums And Art Galleries?” in the Contemporary Art Society’s 2018 Annual Conference. This year’s annual conference explored the rapid development of digital …
Remedios Zafra, CSNI external researcher associate, has published the article The Precarious Individual: Cultural Workers in the Digital Era in CCCB Lab (Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona).
For some time now vocation and enthusiasm have been exploited to justify the drift towards labour precarity. This tendency is on …
Juan Martín Prada, CSNI external researcher associate, has contributed a paper titled New Media Egologies in the 6th issue of the journal Re-visiones.
This article addresses the notion of the web as a mirrored sphere.
The debate about the primacy of a psychomorphic vision of reality, associated with the use …
Andrew Dewdney has contributed a paper Museums, scholarly enterprise and global assemblages: a response to ‘Artifacts and allegiances: how museums put the nation and the world on display’ in Identities Volume 24, Issue 1.
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CSNI researchers Annet Dekker and Katrina Sluis will be joining Marco de Mutiis of FotoMuseum Winterthur on Tuesday 13th February, 7pm to discuss “the new artefacts of the image” as part of Foto Colectania’s digital platform Done:
Our relationship with images is transforming at high speed due to the proliferation …
CSNI Researcher Katrina Sluis was recently interviewed by Lewis Bush for 1000 Words Magazine about her curating and research. You can head over to 1000 Words to read more.…
CSNI Director Andrew Dewdney has contributed a chapter, “Art Museum Knowledge and the Crisis of Representation” to a new volume, Representing Art Education: On the Representation of Pedagogical work in the Art Field, edited by Carmen Mörsch, Sigrid Schade & Sophie Vögele.…
CSNI Researchers Annet Dekker (21st Feb) and Katrina Sluis (24th May) will be participating in “Curating Machines”, a series of events organised by Olga Goriunova, Lilly Markaki and Chris Townsend (Dept. of Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London): https://www.facebook.com/
The CSNI will be presenting a panel as part of MeCCSA 2018, hosted at London South Bank University
‘The Networked Image Economy and the Automation of Culture’
Discussants: Andrew Dewdney, Katrina Sluis and Annet Dekker.
There is still a general confusion within the public cultural sector about what constitutes the …
CSNI Researcher Katrina Sluis was recently interviewed for the BBC Radio 4 Programme ‘PowerPointless’, a documentary on the culture and aesthetics of Microsoft PowerPoint. She discussed the production of the 2016 Media Wall project PowerPoint Polemics at The Photographers’ Gallery and the contribution of artists including Clunie Reid.
Listen …
Gabriel Menotti and Bruno Zorzal interview Katrina Sluis for the Brazilian Photography publication ZUM: Revista de Fotografia.
Read the interview (in Portuguese), here:
https://revistazum.com.br/noticias/entrevista-katrina-sluis/…
CSNI Researcher Alan Warburton has just released a new video essay online
It’s 2017 and computer graphics have conquered the Uncanny Valley, that strange place where things are almost real… but not quite. After decades of innovation, we’re at the point where we can conjure just about anything with software. …