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 Nicolas Malevé has published “An Introduction to Image Datasets” for The Photographer’s Gallery’s Unthinking Photography platform. It presents some key concepts and questions that make the computer vision dataset an object of concern for photographic practitioners and institutions.
“The scale of contemporary datasets, the speed at …
Applications are invited for a new Artist in Residence programme at London South Bank University (LSBU). We are seeking to appoint a dynamic and enthusiastic person who is seeking time and access to resources to develop their practice and would benefit demonstrably from doing this within the practice, research and …
Artist and CSNI researcher Nicolas Malevé has written a computer script that cycles through ImageNet — a vast dataset of 14,197,122 photographs — at a speed of 90 milliseconds per image. To exhibit all images, this runs over a two month period (until 01 Sep 2019) as a live stream…
Daniel Alexander completed a film, tilted Scales of Resistance, which was the output of two years practice based research with Scientists at the University of Nottingham and a 3D visualisation practice called Scan Lab Projects. The scientists have developed medical devices that combat Antibiotic Resistance, and the film developed …
Art and the Internet: The Network as a Research Area and Theme in New Visual Artistic Practices Research and Development Project, funded by Agencia Estatal de Investigación. Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness. Government of Spain). Principal investigator (PI): Juan Martín Prada. Universidad de Cádiz (Spain).
Research members: Andrew Dewdney. …
Nicolas Malevé’s presentation from the Image/Net/Works conference at Fotomuseum Winterthaur, and organised by Lucerne University of Applied Arts and Sciences in collaboration with Fotomuseum Winterthur, is now available HERE.
For more on the conference, https://www.fotomuseum.ch/en/explore/situations/155519.…
CSNI/LSBU is looking for an Associate Professor in Expanded Photographic Practices and Curating to take a leading role in the development and assessment of the School’s research activities, together with teaching photography at BA and MA levels. The person appointed will manage The Centre for the Study of the Networked …
From 1st December 2018, the CSNI researcher Katrina Sluis will be undertaking a Swiss National Science Foundation funded research project “Curating Photography in the Networked Image Economy” in collaboration with Dr Wolfgang Brückle, Lucerne University of Applied Arts and Sciences, Fotomuseum Winterthur, FotoColectania and The Photographers’ Gallery…
The CSNI associate researcher and artist Simon Terrill is currently showing his work in two exhibitions in Melbourne. The first is at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) where Terrill presents a retrospective of his ‘Crowd Theory’ project (2004 – today). The exhibition explores crowd dynamics and the relationship between …
Over 4 days in January 2019, CSNI researcher Katrina Sluis worked with the artist Jonas Lund to transform the 3rd Floor of The Photographers’ Gallery into an influencing office tasked with reversing Brexit. Part installation, part performance, part working think tank, Operation Earnest Voice aimed to explore and interrogate the numerous tools, methods and strategies used to influence …
Professor Andrew Dewdney reviews Joanna Zylinska’s book Nonhuman Photography, in his text “Photography Remoulded” published in the journal New Formations (Autumn 2018).
The review is available to read online, here (pages 166-170).…
In dialogue with The Photographers’ Gallery exhibition All I Know Is What’s On The Internet, the one day symposium Post-Capitalist Photography Now! explored issues around photography’s capacity to challenge neoliberalism and bring alternative systems into view, and the roles of public institutions and the art world in such …
In December 2018, the CSNI PhD researcher Nicolas Malevé took part in the Image Net/Works conference, organised by Lucerne University of Applied Arts and Sciences in collaboration with Fotomuseum Winterthur. The conference focused on images and the associated economies of looking, producing and sharing as well as the photography’s changing …
The exhibition All I Know Is What’s On The Internet at The Photographers’ Gallery in London, presents the work of 11 contemporary artists and groups seeking to map, visualise and question the cultural dynamics of 21st Century image culture. It is curated by the CSNI researcher Katrina Sluis, whom you can …
Professor Andrew Dewdney has published a book review in the forthcoming issue of Journal of Design History about ‘Memories of the Future: On Countervision’ edited by Dr. Stephen Wilson and Deborah Jaffe.
Read an excerpt here: …
The second annual CSNI Summer School took place in the 7th of June at Jerwood Space in London and it was a rich day of presentations and discussions. This year’s invited speakers included Dr. Geoff Cox and Dr. Magda Tyżlik-Carver who presented their current research projects and responded to the …
CSNI associate researchers Adam Brown and Alan Warburton, along with the game designer Tabea Iseli, were this year’s winning team of the P3: Post-Photography Prototyping Prize! Brown, Warburton and Iseli worked under the theme of ‘Generative Photography’ and created the prototyping project Freezing the Photographer.
Alan Warburton’s work Homo Economicus is part of a new exhibition at the Somerset House Studios which questions the implications of producing, collecting and sorting data for society and the individual. The exhibition, titled Complex Values, includes the works of three resident artists at the Somerset House Studios: Alan …
What does photographic curation mean in an era of the fluid image and during a time of non-medium specificity?
On the 2nd of June 2018, Katrina Sluis, CSNI Researcher and Digital Curator at The Photographers’ Gallery, spoke in the ‘Encounters: Photography and Curation’ symposium – a collaboration between The Photographers’ …
On the 10th of May 2018, Professor Andrew Dewdney presented a talk with the title “What Is The Current Fascination With VR On The Part Of Museums And Art Galleries?” in the Contemporary Art Society’s 2018 Annual Conference. This year’s annual conference explored the rapid development of digital …
