Centre for the Study of the Networked Image
Join us on Wednesday October 9th, 16.00-18.00, at Borough Road Gallery (103 Borough Road, LSBU) for a presentation by Martin Zeilinger entitled Generative AI & Concept Art: Mean Images in the Creative Industries. All welcome.
This talk tracks ongoing research regarding the highly polarised perception of generative AI tools …
Announcing an open call for Kunstlicht, ‘Online Curating’ guest edited by Annet Dekker. Deadline 5 September 2024; Published April 2025. Online curating challenges traditional models and methods for presenting, accessing and distributing art in relation to the use of space (from white cubes to online spaces) and collaboration (from …
Angels, Bots, Cute AIs and Animism: A Conversation on Cyberfeminism and AI Imaginaries, Wednesday July 10, 2024 | 18:00 BST | 103 Borough Road Gallery, London SE1 0AA. REGISTER HERE
The Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics group in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image invites …
CSNI researcher Kendal Beynon leads a workshop focused on making digital zines within spaces that encourage creative expression and agency, 17:00 – 20:00, Thu 25 Jul 2024, at The Photographers’ Gallery.
A bedroom is more than just a room; it’s a sanctuary to truly explore and understand oneself. It serves …
Join us for the The Great Netfix Finissage and launch of the VHS network, on 2nd July 2024, 6-8pm, at Borough Road Gallery / Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, London South Bank University.
In the mood for goofy, quirky or swoonworthy? At this concluding event of The …
“Towards a Manifesto for the Liberated Image” is an article by Ben Burbridge and Andrew Dewdney which discusses the value of collaborative practices of image-making in relation to technological change and the mode of capitalist reproduction. It situates the discussion of collaboration in the context of a tradition of anti-capitalist …
Join us for Drawing Analogies at 18:30 – 20:00 on June 25th to hear David Burrows, Dean Kenning, and Mary Yacoob discuss some of the ideas in their forthcoming book Drawing Analogies: Diagrams in Art, Theory and Practice (co-authored with John Cussans, and published by Bloomsbury in January …
Media Theory 8.1 (2024) is a special issue on ‘Seeing Photographically‘, edited by Scott McQuire, Celia Lury, Jasmin Pfefferkorn, Daniel Palmer and Emilie K. Sunde. It includes an essay by Geoff Cox ‘Photography at a Standstill‘; also contributions by Ina Blom & Matthew Fuller, Seán Cubitt, …
The Great Netfix by a Video Store After the End of the World, 5 June – 3 July 2024. Borough Road Gallery / Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, London South Bank University. Open weekdays 14-17 and by appointment. Opening: 5 June, 6 – 8pm. Finissage: 2 July, …
Teodora Sinziana Alata will be contributing to the “Towards an Automated Art? Learning Machines, Human Creativity and Uncertainty” international conference in Lisbon on the 24th of May, with a paper “Troubling the Engine Aesthetic: Reflections on Volumetric Visualities and the Networks that Inhabit Them”.
As an extension of her research …
May 13 2024 French national newspaper Le Monde published an article by journalist Nastasia Hadjadji based on an interview with CSNI researcher Marloes de Valk about her doctoral research. The article Permacomputing: la discrète communauté qui défend des outils numériques libres, sobres et décroissants* discusses the work of a …
CSNI co-Director Annet Dekker will present ‘Curating Online: Art in Space and Time’ at ISEA2024 in Brisbane, Wednesday 26 June (offline + live streamed), https://isea2024.isea-international.org/…
Networked Images/ASCA organises ‘Precarious Collections and Data Colonialism‘ – masterclass with Ofri Cnaani and Annet Dekker, followed with a performance lecture by Ofri Cnaani moderated by Noa Roei, 18 June 2024, 15:00-16:30 (Masterclass), 17:00-18:30 (Public Lecture), VOX-POP in Amsterdam.
Explore the recent discourse on ‘data colonialism’ and its …
“‘paula’ & Work: A Document on the Machinic Enslavement in Academic Capitalism 2023-24” is an exhibition by paula roush, at Borough Road Gallery, London South Bank University. Join us for the preview of the publication-installation on Tuesday, May 7, 6-9pm, and artist’s talk “Ai Disruption: AI, Education, and Algorithms of …
The Open Book Futures (OBF) Experimental Publishing Group is pleased to announce the launch of ‘Servpub – A Collective Infrastructure to Serve and Publish’, one of three funded pilot projects resulting from OBF’s call for experimental book projects.
See full blog post by Rebekka Kiesewetter.
Servpub will be developed …
We are happy to announce the release of the 14th edition of the e-journal MAP – Media / Archive / Performance on “Doing Documentation”, guest edited by Annet Dekker and Gabriella Giannachi. https://perfomap.de/map14/editorial-14
Documentation is a burgeoning field that concerns a range of disciplines and practices, including …
Join us on Wednesday May 1st, 15.00-17.00, at Borough Road Gallery (103 Borough Road, LSBU) for a presentation by Joanna Zylinska entitled The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future Between the Eye and AI. All welcome.
Today, we are not only constantly photographing but are also being photographed by machines …
CSNI researcher Teodora Sinziana Alata is presenting a paper titled “Affective Attunement within Virtual Ecologies: Immersive Worlding as Posthuman Storytelling Practice”, on 25th April, as part of the Politics of the Machines 2024 conference in Aachen, Germany, which reflects on game engines as software infrastructures, worlding with reality media, speculative storytelling, …
The workshop “University as Infrastructure” will take place on Tuesday 16 April 2024, 09:30 – 12:30, at AIAS (Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies), Aarhus Unversity, Denmark. We will collaboratively diagram the data and software systems on which all Universities have become dependent. More details and to register, at https://aias.au.dk/events/show/artikel/workshop-university-as-infrastructure.…
Interview with Andrew Dewdney by Róza Tekla Szilágyi and Endre Cserna for eidolon journal, exploring how computation has transformed the photographic image and further discussing his publications Forget Photography (Goldsmiths Press, 2021) and The Networked Image in Post-Digital Culture (Routledge 2023, ed. w/ Katrina Sluis).
Read the full interview …
