Centre for the Study of the Networked Image
The Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI) and Whitechapel Gallery are pleased to invite applications for a full time, funded PhD commencing in April 2021 or ASAP.
Deadline for applications is Monday 21 March 2021.
We are interested in projects that examine the potential of networks …
Just published: Introduction to Ways of Machine Seeing for AI & Society by Mitra Azar, Geoff Cox, and Leonardo Impett. How do machines, and, in particular, computational technologies, change the way we see the world? This special issue brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines to explore the …
Join us online on 3rd March 2021 at 15.00 for our next research event when we hear from Dan Barnard (LSBU/Fast Familiar).
In this talk, Dan will outline some of the work he is doing as part of a project called The Networked Condition: The Environmental Impacts of Digital Cultural …
Machine Vision’s Visions, roundtable discussion
Wednesday 17 February, 19:00 London / 20:00 Berlin / 14:00 NYC
Participants: Peter Bell, Tega Brain, Leonardo Impett, Fabian Offert
Register via this link.
The project Curating Photography in the Networked Image Economy studies the networked image and its various intersections with curating, and has been …
The new book Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies, by Winnie Soon and Geoff Cox, is out now, and available to buy as paper copy or download for free.
The book explores the technical as well as cultural imaginaries of programming from its insides. It follows the principle …
CSNI’s Marloes de Valk has interviewed Nestor Siré to discuss his artistic practice and how he has engaged with the development of alternative networks that arose in Cuba, from book rental shops to El Paquete Semanal and SNET, the country-wide Wi-Fi mesh network run by gamers. The interview is part …
Join us online on 6th January 2021 at 15.00 for our next research event at which Rosie Hermon and Marloes de Valk will present their contribution to the transmediale workshop Research Refusal. Their proposal explores the process and practice of delinking within and through digital networks as an act …
Simon Browne will introduce his project the bootleg library and run a workshop on building a parallel library for CSNI and The Photographers’ Gallery on the networked image. Book a place at https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/talks-and-events/bootleg-library.
Presentation: The Bootleg Library, Thursday 26th November, 18:00-19:30
(Recording of the talk can be found …
CSNI’s Nicolas Malevé’s open access article for AI & Society (Springer) is now published online. It is part of the upcoming special issue Ways of Machine Seeing that will be released in 2021 (co-edited by Mitra Azar, Geoff Cox & Leonardo Impett). The abstract follows, and article can be read …
As part of an ongoing collaboration between transmediale festival Berlin, Aarhus University and shifting research institutions, we are seeking proposals by research groups to collaboratively research refusal. Organised by transmediale festival, Digital Aesthetics Research Center/Aarhus University (Christian Ulrik Andersen), and Centre for the Study of the Networked Image/London South …
Join us online on 4th November at 15.00 for our next research event which marks the initial stages of a new project exploring a contemporary reimagining of the crowd. We will hear from CSNI’s Simon Terrill and guest speaker Jane Hall from Assemble. Jane will introduce Legacy Russell’s text Glitch …
The COVID-19 pandemic has been yet another turning point in the history of the internet and our reliance upon it. Galleries and arts institutions are looking anew at how we might use technology for expanded curatorial methodologies. This screening and discussion with the artists takes Christopher Kulendran Thomas and Annika Kuhlmann’s film installation Being Human…
CSNI’s Annet Dekker, Geoff Cox, and Lozana Rossenova, along with Rhizome’s Dragan Espenschied and artist Nastja Säde, will contribute to the workshop Networked art practice after digital preservation, organised by Sarah Cook (University of Glasgow) and Roddy Hunter (University of Huddersfield), as part of ISEA 2020, on October …
Join us online on 7th October at 15.00 for our next research event at which we will hear Marco de Mutiis present his in-progress PhD project How To Win At Photography. We have also invited Seth Giddings (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton) to join us as discussant. …
The latest issue of A Peer-Reviewed Journal About Research Networks is out now. Published by Aarhus University in partnership with transmediale, and edited by Christian Ulrik Andersen and Geoff Cox, contributions are from Sudipto Basu, Wenhao Bi, Nicola Bozzi, Iuliia Glushneva, Rebecca Holt, Özgün Eylül İşcen, Linda Kronman, Wing Ki …
The next CSNI research event includes a talk by Jussi Parikka and a discussion of a co-written article with Abelardo Gil-Fournier. Join us online at 15.00 UK time, 3rd June 2020. This is a closed event for CSNI researchers but if you’d like to join us please email us (mail …
Talk by Jacob Lund @Borough Road Gallery, 17.00, 4th March 2020. All welcome.
Assuming that images are as foundational as language in the construction of the world – and now perhaps even more so – the talk will reflect on some of the ways in which digitalization effects changes in …
This publication is a raw unedited record of mail list exchanges in advance of a research workshop at the Canadian Embassy in Berlin (29-30 Jan 2020) and public presentations at Volksbühne (31 Jan 2020), as part of transmediale 2020 End to End which aimed to deal with the pervasiveness of …
Talk by Helen Pritchard @Borough Road Gallery, 17.00, 5th February 2020. All welcome.
The contemporary infrastructural complex of mining and measuring undergrounds depends on software tools for geological data handling, interpretation, and 3D-visualisation. Such tools power techno-colonial subsurface exploration with computational techniques and paradigms. In this talk I will present …
Talk by Laura Hopes @Borough Road Gallery, 17.00, 8th January 2020. All welcome.
In this talk I explore the power dynamics inherent within the naming of something; the conferring of ownership, of defining accessibility to or relationships with a subject. Central to this examination is the theoretical and political sleight …
