Centre for the Study of the Networked Image
Three takeaways from the Serpentine’s Future Art Ecosystems Report, published in an article for artnet.news. CSNI/Serpentine researcher Victoria Ivanova and the Serpentine’s chief technology officer Ben Vickers consider the future of art and technology from an infrastructural perspective.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, arts organizations have …
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 …
Established in 1999, the Rhizome ArtBase is an international and diverse archive with over 2200 born-digital artworks, primarily works of net art. With its expansion in size and scope as well as complexity over the past 20 years, the commitment to preservation of the works in the ArtBase has become …
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 Helen Pritchard @Borough Road Gallery, 17.00, 5th February 2020. All welcome.
The contemporary infrastructural complex of mining and measuring undergrounds depends on software tools for geological data handling, interpretation, and 3D-visualisation. Such tools power techno-colonial subsurface exploration with computational techniques and paradigms. In this talk I will present …
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 …
Geoff Cox and Winnie Soon co-organised the workshop “Making hybrid publications using Git and web technologies” with Stéphanie Vilayphiou and Gijs de Heij from OSP (Open Source Publishing, Brussels), at Aarhus University, 28-29 October. This special mode of publishing is based on Git as a version-control system, managing …
CSNI’s Co-Director Dr Annet Dekker and PhD Researcher Lozana Rossenova (image above) attended the 16th edition of the International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES, for short), which took place 16–20th September, 2019, at the Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam.
The 16th edition of the International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES, …
How do we think about networks under post-digital conditions? What does this imply for research?
The next transmediale festival, End to End (E2E), aims to deal with the pervasiveness of networks and their limits. It refers to Robert Filliou’s The Eternal Network (1983), pointing to the interconnectedness of everyday-life actions across …
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…
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. …
The third annual CSNI Summer School took place at the Jerwood Space, London on 13 June with twenty-six research affiliated delegates in attendance. The conference brought together researchers and practitioners examining the rapidly changing and expanding nature of the networked image and how collaborative partnerships in the arts are an …
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.…
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 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 …
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 …
Panel: “Unthinking Photography: cultural value and the networked image”
@ Ways of Machine Seeing organised by Cambridge Digital Humanities Network, and CoDE (Cultures of the Digital Economy Research Institute) and Cambridge Big Data, 26-28 June 2017, with Nicolas Malevé, Gaia Tedone, Katrina Sluis, Annet Dekker, Magda Tyżlik-Carver, Andrew Dewdney
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PhD research by Nicolas Malevé (collaborative PhD with The Photographers’ Gallery)
Today, as we are confronted on a daily basis with millions of images on the Internet, grasping the visual world seems an overwhelming task.…
