Centre for the Study of the Networked Image
We believe that paying attention to fundamental, or key, concepts from computation provides the opportunity to open up new insights into aesthetics and critical theory, as well as new perspectives on cultural phenomena increasingly bound to computational logic.
What if a book wasn’t an endpoint but an infrastructure?
Publishing as Collective Infrastructure challenges the idea of the book as a fixed object and reimagines publishing as a collective, political, and infrastructural practice. Emerging from the ServPub project, this book brings together artists, academics, technologists, feminist server collectives, and …
Join us for a presentation by Leonardo Impett, “Workers are Leaving the Factory – world models and AI after cinema”, on Wednesday 11th March, 16:00-18:00, at The Photographers’ Gallery. Further details and book a place HERE.
The presentation will argue that video models (like OpenAI’s SORA) should not be …
Peckham Digital: Artist and Computer is a podcast exploring the evolving relationship between artists and technology. Inspired by Ruth Leavitt’s ground-breaking 1976 anthology Artist and Computer, the series revisits the original ten questions posed to early computer artists — asking a new generation how and why they use computers in …
New book in the DATA browser series: DECENTRING ETHICS: AI ART AS METHOD. Edited by Vanessa Bartlett, Jasmin Pfefferkorn and Emilie K Sunde. Published in 2025 by Open Humanities Press.
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The book contains commissioned essays, in conversation pieces and artistic interventions, with contributions by …
Peckham Digital, the South East London festival celebrating creative technology and digital art, returns from 16–19 October 2025 at Copeland Gallery with a bold programme that invites the public to explore, play, and participate in art and technology. Now in its fourth year, Peckham Digital 2025 showcases a dynamic mix …
Join us for this launch event at The Photographers’ Gallery on Saturday 28 June, 14:00-17:30, aimed at those interested in art education and the potential for creative and critical use of image-based Generative AI in the secondary school classroom. Free, but please book a place.
The Ways of [Machine] Seeing…
Please join us for the first annual conference of the Digital x Data Research Centre, 03-04 July 2025, at London South Bank University.
How do different disciplinary traditions approach the concept of infrastructure, and what can we learn from the intersection(ity) of positions?
Keynotes by Orit Halpern (Professor and …
The final lecture in the Virtual Realisms public series, curated by CSNI PhD researcher Teodora Sinziana Alata in collaboration with Tadej Vindis, will take place on the 12th of June 2025, 18:00-20:00, in the Fabrication Lab, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS.
This lecture traces the long-standing …
The fifth lecture in the Virtual Realisms public series, curated by CSNI PhD researcher Teodora Sinziana Alata in collaboration with Tadej Vindis, will take place on the 8th of May 2025, 18:00-20:00 in the Fabrication Lab, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road London NW1 5LS.
In an age of ecological …
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 …
The fifth lecture in the Virtual Realisms public series, curated by CSNI PhD researcher Teodora Sinziana Alata in collaboration with Tadej Vindis, will take place on the 10th of April 2025, 18:00-20:00 in the Fabrication Lab, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road London NW1 5LS.
The Anthropocene, the geological epoch …
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 …
Join us on Wednesday 5 March 2025, 15:00-17:00, at LSBU’s XR Studio, Room LH135, The Hub, for a demo session of the technology available at our latest research facility – the XR Studio – followed by a talk by XR Studio Manager and artist Kristina Pulejkova.
This is a chance …
The Creative Coding Bookclub is a new monthly event, facilitated by Mickey and Luis, in which we aim to actively work our way through writings that inspire the reader with practical coding challenges, while sharing our journey online and in-person. The first of these will be on Wednesday 26th February, …
Tracing the intersections of AI and critical race theory, join us for a panel conversation on Thursday 20 Feb, 18:30-20:00, at Whitechapel Gallery. Ramon Amaro, Maya Indira Ganesh, and Maria Dada will use Donald Rodney’s Autoicon as a springboard, situating Rodney’s work in the social and political landscape of …
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 …
The third lecture in the Virtual Realisms public series, curated by CSNI PhD researcher Teodora Sinziana Alata in collaboration with Tadej Vindis, will take place on the 6th of February 2025, 18:00-20:00, Lecture Theatre 3, at Harrow Campus, University of Westminster.
Decades after canonical media theorists predicted that new media …
Join us on Wednesday 5th Feb, 15-17:00 at Borough Road Gallery, to hear Zaiba Jabbar as she shares the journey of founding HERVISIONS, a platform that has become a vital force in reshaping digital art spaces.
This talk explores how HERVISIONS emerged as a response to the need for diverse …
