Two doctoral scholarships are available in the School of Arts and Creative Industries, London South Bank University. One of these is based at CSNI. More details at https://www.findaphd.com/phds/programme/phd-opportunities-in-school-of-art-and-creative-industries-lsbu/?p5506.…
Category: Photography
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.
We invite you to join us on Tuesday 6 December, 18.00-20.00, at The Photographers’ Gallery, for a discussion on Learning experiments in computer vision and visual literacy. What opportunities and challenges does AI present for the art and design classroom?
This open discussion follows on from two workshops with …
This trans-disciplinary conference and exhibition investigates how images made on the vertical axis are encountered, interpreted, decoded, created and utilised. It explores the ways in which they have changed, or could change, the world.
“You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is …
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 …
Presentation by Associate Professor Katrina Sluis, Head of Photography and Media Arts, School of Art & Design (and CSNI co-Director), Tuesday 17 May 2022, 1–2pm (AEST, so 04.00am UK time, aargh!). Lecture Theatre (room 1.02), Sir Roland Wilson Building, 120 McCoy Circuit, ANU. Register at https://soad.cass.anu.edu.au/events/katrina-sluis-curating-networked-image-between-computation-commodification. Those who can’t …
The trans-disciplinary conference invites both presentations of practice-based work and papers, that investigate how images made on the vertical axis are encountered, interpreted, decoded, created and utilised, to explore the ways in which they have changed, or could change, the world.
“You put together two things that have not been put …
Join Andrew Dewdney in an online conversation with Joanna Zylinska on 6:30pm, 16 Feb 2022 at 18:30, about his new book Forget Photography, published by Goldsmiths Press.
They will be in conversation about the core concepts of the book – why photography must be forgotten and the frame of reality it prescribes …
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 …
At long last the special issue of AI & Society has been published, edited by Mitra Azar, Geoff Cox, and Leonardo Impett. Alongside our introduction, it includes contributions from María Jesús Schultz Abarca, Peter Bell, Tobias Blanke, Benjamin Bratton, Claudio Celis Bueno, Kate Crawford, Iain Emsley, Abelardo Gil-Fournier, Daniel Chávez …
An evening discussion exploring how artists negotiate the work of documentation in contemporary network culture, via Zoom, 6:00pm – 7:30pm (UK time), 13 Dec 2021, organised by Annet Dekker and Katrina Sluis for the AHRC Project Documenting Digital Art. Presentations by Free/Pay what you can. Book here.
What …
The project explores how images move across infrastructures. In this context, we propose a two-day workshop to approach the digital image as a transactional device that we can use to trace the infrastructure through which it circulates. This hybrid workshop will be hosted by the MediaDock at the Lucerne School of Art and Design and …
Between 01 Nov and 20 December 2021, CSNI co-director Andrew Dewdney is writing a series of blog posts for Fotomuseum Winterthur entitled “Zombie Photography: What is the Photographic Image Still Doing?“. He explains more below.
“This contribution to Still Searching… is based upon the argument of my …
New issue of The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics on “The Changing Ontology of the Image” includes contributions by CSNI researchers.
Contributions by Emmanuel Alloa; Heba Y. Amin; Ina Blom; Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (Geoff Cox, Annet Dekker, Andrew Dewdney, and Katrina Sluis); Yves Citton; Claire Fontaine; …
Online event: Tuesday 13 July, 11.00 BST
What is the role of audience documentation of artworks in contemporary network culture? Speakers include Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert, Russell Dornan, Kylie Budge and Rob Horning. More information and booking at https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/work-art-age-audience-documentation?mc_cid=6f73aacc55&mc_eid=51f40d830e.
The Work of Art in an Age of Audience Documentation forms part of Documenting …
Screen Walk: One-click install to autonomy?
Wednesday 30 June 18.00 BST
Join Aymeric Mansoux and Roel Roscam Abbing in a live-streamed presentation.
Register
How can art and culture offer online spaces outside of corporate platforms and infrastructures, and what does it involve? Aymeric Mansoux and Roel Roscam Abbing will take …
The exhibition explores the relationship between photography and play. It investigates the notion of image play, creating unexpected connections between the history of photography, the gamification of the visible as well as practices of image-making with and within computer games. The exhibition runs from 5th June to 10 Oct 20021 …
Join us online on 2nd June 2021 at 15.00 for our next research event with Andrew Dewdney: On the Importance of Making an Argument – a short account of writing Forget Photography in the first year of Covid.
Arguments are propositions and productive for thought and programmatic for a field …
Marco De Mutiis (Digital Curator at Fotomuseum Winterthur) and Jon Uriarte (Curator for the Digital Programme at The Photographers’ Gallery) will attempt to map the current development of NFTs and blockchain technologies from their curatorial perspective. NFT stands for non-fungible token, a unit of data or token stored on a …
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 …
Between Camera & Network: Art and Documentation in Post-Photographic Culture is a series of talks at The Photographers’ Gallery over three weeks in March involving artists, curators, photographers, conservators, educators, technologists and museum professionals. Each talk explores a different aspect of the changing role of photography in art and digital …