Centre for the Study of the Networked Image
Photographic research has two related objects of attention. Firstly we are interested in current work around computer vision and how it is being framed and taken up in research labs and commercial development. Secondly we are interested in what is happening to cameras and the optics of vision.
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 …
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 …
Congratulations to Marloes de Valk for passing her PhD in April. The Image at the End of the World: Communities of practice redefining technology on a damaged Earth examines alternative approaches to technology that have less destructive effects on the environment, such as permacomputing, slow tech, and more. The project …
Join us on Tuesday 6th May 2025, 18:30-20:00, at The Photographers’ Gallery, for The Hypothetical Image: Reading the Artifacts of Generative AI, a talk by artist, hacker and policy researcher Eryk Salvaggio. Organised by Digital x Data Research Centre. Book a place here.
Documentation can be found here…
Join us on Wednesday 30th April 2025, 15-17:00 at Borough Road Gallery, for a presentation by Amanda Wasielewski entitled “The End of Photography Again: Digital Photography After AI”. All welcome.
This talk addresses the historical and theoretical concerns for the field of photography after the widespread uptake of generative AI …
Join us on Wednesday 2nd April 2025, 12:30-14:00 at Borough Road Gallery, for a presentation by visiting researcher Lorenzo Aimo entitled “(Re)Framing GenAI from a Post-Photographic Perspective: Images Inside and Outside AI”. All welcome.
What is happening to the concept of the “image” in the era of Generative AI? This …
On Friday 14 February, as part of Talks on Everyday Imaging vol. 2 : The Self-Centred and the Networked, organised by the Eidolon Centre, CSNI’s Kendal Beynon (PhD researcher in partnership with The Photographers’ Gallery) will be in conversation with Olga Goriunova (Professor and Director of Research in …
We are looking for a Research Assistant (0.4FTE) in GenAI & Visual Literacy. The position is offered in the context of the project “Ways of (Machine) Seeing: towards a new visual literacy in AI” supported by Responsible Ai UK Skills Programme, in collaboration with UCL Institute of Education, Justice Matrix …
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 …
“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 …
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, …
“‘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 …
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 …
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 …
This teacher-led workshop and discussion will be held at The Photographers’ Gallery on 20 March 17:30-19:30. It is derived form an ongoing collaboration between art & design teachers, researchers at CSNI and UCL Institute of Education, and The Photographers’ Gallery. Pick up a free poster. Contributions from teachers, artists and …
Presentation and workshop by paula roush at the Photobook Week Aarhus, this year under the theme Future Revisited, to shape a new discourse around things such as Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence. Full details can be found at https://photobookweek.org/updates/pwa-ai-workshop-program/.
Online presentation + Q&A: “A.I. Disruption: Exploring Experimental Photobook Publishing with …
Adam Brown and Cheryl Newman invite you to the opening of their exhibition “Temporalities”, at the Borough Road Gallery, LSBU. The private view is on the 14th September from 18.00, and the show runs till the 22nd September.
Artist and educationalist Cheryl Newman will be exhibiting a series …
On Friday 08 September, 18.30-20.00 at The Photographers’ Gallery, as part of TPG Friday Lates, CSNI researcher Teodora Sinziana will take part in the panel Between Worlds. Join both Teodora Sinziana and Nick Murray to discuss ideas around the death of digital spaces and the creation of ‘virtual …
Marco de Mutiis (Fotomuseum Winterthur, and a CSNI researcher) has organised an evening event on Friday, 21 July 2023, 18.00 – 21.00, at V&A South Kensington, Room 99, The Digital Gallery, Photography Centre. Free event. More details at https://www.fotomuseum.ch/en/events-post/performances-und-talks-the-lure-of-the-image-screen-bodies/
How and why are we seduced by images? What draws us …
Join Andrew Dewdney and Victoria Walsh in conversation on The Royal Photographic Society’s Livestream, 27 June 2023 at 18.00.
Andrew received the RPS’s Education Award in 2022 which is given is given for outstanding achievement or sustained contribution in photographic education. The conversation will last for around 45 minutes followed …
