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.
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.
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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
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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 …
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 …
| Our partners The Photographers’ Gallery have just launched a programme exploring existing and potential networks that use images to enable human and machine interactions. Over the course of a year, the social, political, technological and environmental impacts of image networks will be examined through artist commissions, texts, workshops and events. |
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 …
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 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 …
CSNI partner institutions Fotomuseum Winterthur and The Photographers’ Gallery have invited selected artists to perform guided explorations of specific online and digital spaces in which their core artistic research and practice takes place. Each video stream is conceived as a format blurring the boundaries between a guided tour and a …
London South Bank University and The Photographers’ Gallery are pleased to invite applications for a full-time, funded PhD commencing in April 2020 or ASAP. This is an exciting opportunity to undertake a collaborative doctoral research project with the Digital Programme of TPG and The Centre for the Study of the Networked Image …
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 …
Talk by Wing-Ki Lee @Borough Road Gallery, 17.00, 4th December 2019. All welcome.
Background reading: Wing-Ki Lee, “Derivative Work and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement: Three Perspectives”, in Visualizing the Street: New Practices of Documenting, Navigating and Imagining the City, edited by Pedram Dibazar and Judith Naeff, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University …
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. …
