Centre for the Study of the Networked Image
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The School of Arts and Creative Industries (ACI), London South Bank University is delighted to offer three collaborative doctoral research scholarship opportunities commencing February 2024. Each scholarship is fully funded for three years (UKRI rates) and includes full course fees, an annual stipend (including an additional London allowance) and associated …
One-day event Collective Publishing Practices at Borough Road Gallery, 103 Borough Rd, LSBU, thursday 12th May, 15:00 – 20:00
— Join us, everyone is welcome!
15.00-20.00 – mobile strategies [of display & mediation]
liquid memories ~to read with water is an open publication developed with photographs of water (sourced from …
Join us on Wednesday 2nd February 2022 at 15.00 (online) for our next research event with Daniel Chávez Heras reflecting on computer vision and photographic practice, including the example “Made by Machine: When AI met the Archive” (BBC, 2018). All welcome.
Deep learning computer vision systems are trained on …
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 …
On the changing role of archives in the digital age
Do ‘Living Archives’ provide a space for erased, forgotten, neglected and new memories?
Editor: Annet Dekker
Contributors: Babak Afrassiabi, Dušan Barok, Tina Bastajian, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Özge Çelikaslan, Annet Dekker, Olia Lialina, Manu Luksch, Nicolas Malevé, Aymeric Mansoux, Michael Murtaugh, …
Spectacle, Speculation and Spam by Alan Warburton
This video essay was created by Alan Warburton for the Edge of Frame Weekend seminar at The Whitechapel gallery in East London in December 2016. Artists, curators and academics were asked to explore where experimental animation practice sits in relation to independent animation, …
The Centre for the Study of the Networked Image requires a Research Assistant as soon as possible on a 0.4 (two days per week) fixed term contract until July 31 2017.
This is a flexible post, to assist in the co-ordination of the Centre’s public events with The Photographers’ Gallery …
