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 …
Category: Computation
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.
Join us on Wednesday October 9th, 16.00-18.00, at Borough Road Gallery (103 Borough Road, LSBU) for a presentation by Martin Zeilinger entitled Generative AI & Concept Art: Mean Images in the Creative Industries. All welcome.
This talk tracks ongoing research regarding the highly polarised perception of generative AI tools …
Announcing an open call for Kunstlicht, ‘Online Curating’ guest edited by Annet Dekker. Deadline 5 September 2024; Published April 2025. Online curating challenges traditional models and methods for presenting, accessing and distributing art in relation to the use of space (from white cubes to online spaces) and collaboration (from …
Angels, Bots, Cute AIs and Animism: A Conversation on Cyberfeminism and AI Imaginaries, Wednesday July 10, 2024 | 18:00 BST | 103 Borough Road Gallery, London SE1 0AA. REGISTER HERE
The Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics group in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image invites …
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 …
Join us for the The Great Netfix Finissage and launch of the VHS network, on 2nd July 2024, 6-8pm, at Borough Road Gallery / Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, London South Bank University.
In the mood for goofy, quirky or swoonworthy? At this concluding event of The …
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, …
The Great Netfix by a Video Store After the End of the World, 5 June – 3 July 2024. Borough Road Gallery / Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, London South Bank University. Open weekdays 14-17 and by appointment. Opening: 5 June, 6 – 8pm. Finissage: 2 July, …
Teodora Sinziana Alata will be contributing to the “Towards an Automated Art? Learning Machines, Human Creativity and Uncertainty” international conference in Lisbon on the 24th of May, with a paper “Troubling the Engine Aesthetic: Reflections on Volumetric Visualities and the Networks that Inhabit Them”.
As an extension of her research …
May 13 2024 French national newspaper Le Monde published an article by journalist Nastasia Hadjadji based on an interview with CSNI researcher Marloes de Valk about her doctoral research. The article Permacomputing: la discrète communauté qui défend des outils numériques libres, sobres et décroissants* discusses the work of a …
“‘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 …
The Open Book Futures (OBF) Experimental Publishing Group is pleased to announce the launch of ‘Servpub – A Collective Infrastructure to Serve and Publish’, one of three funded pilot projects resulting from OBF’s call for experimental book projects.
See full blog post by Rebekka Kiesewetter.
Servpub will be developed …
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 …
CSNI researcher Teodora Sinziana Alata is presenting a paper titled “Affective Attunement within Virtual Ecologies: Immersive Worlding as Posthuman Storytelling Practice”, on 25th April, as part of the Politics of the Machines 2024 conference in Aachen, Germany, which reflects on game engines as software infrastructures, worlding with reality media, speculative storytelling, …
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 …
Join us on Saturday 03 Feb 2024 at 13:30, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin, as part of the transmediale festival, for presentations and publication launch derived from our research workshop Content/Form.
The participants of this year’s workshop will present their reflections on ways to collapse traditional workflows …
Join us on Wednesday 06 March 2024, 15.00-17.00, at LSBU (BR-230, Borough Road, LSBU) for our research event with Alexandra Anikina and Stephen Cornford (Winchester School of Art) who will present Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics. (This was postponed from late 2023.)
Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics is a newly …
The School of Arts and Creative Industries (ACI), London South Bank University is delighted to offer three collaborative doctoral research scholarship opportunities commencing February 2024. Each scholarship is fully funded for three years (UKRI rates) and includes full course fees, an annual stipend (including an additional London allowance) and associated …
We are pleased to announce the call for our next workshop Content/Form in collaboration with Aarhus University and transmediale, to be held in Berlin (venue TBC), January 29-31, 2024, with a submission deadline of Nov 19, 2023. The application form available HERE.
The 2024 edition of transmediale explores our …