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.
Join us on 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 to visit …
Join us on Tuesday 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 …
The transcript of the book presentation is now published in the latest issue of Media Theory (8.2). On November 29th 2023, Whose Time Is It? Asocial Robots, Syncholonialism and Artificial Chronological Intelligence by Stamatia Portanova was presented online, with cintributions by Iain Chambers, Luciana Parisi and Tiziana Terranova, in conversation …
CSNI researcher Kendal Beynon has published a chapter in From Net, City, World to Cloud, Market, Sea: Metaphors of the Internet. The book investigates how we narrate and imagine the internet with the help of metaphors. Net stands for the connections between computers and users; city conceives cyberspace as …
We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of the free online open access journal, A Peer-Reviewed Journal About Content/Form, with contributions by Manetta Berends & Simon Browne, Kendal Beynon, Edoardo Biscossi, Luca Cacini, Pierre Depaz, Mateus Domingos, Marie Naja Lauritzen Dias, Bilyana Palankasova, Esther Rizo-Casado, …
CSNI researcher Kendal Beynon, along with Alex Falk, is hosting a Crash Course, at V2_ in Rotterdam. Hybrid Event (Online/Offline). More details at https://v2.nl/events/a-crash-course-in-art-media-technology-internet-culture-x-society.
The internet and its culture have undeniably reshaped our lives and society in multifaceted ways. It has for example enabled global connectivity and brought …
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 …
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, …
