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 Wednesday 30th March 2022 at 15.00 at Borough Road Gallery, LSBU, or online at https://centreforthestudyof.net/conversations, for our next research event with Aurora Hoel, Gabriel Pereira, and Lotte Philipsen. All welcome.
The presentation and following discussion focus on the ability (or not?) of aesthetic theory to analyze …
Performance/website launch with Joana Chicau, 17.00 on 2nd March, at Borough Road Gallery, London South Bank University, as part of CSNI research day. All welcome.
Web Choreographies is an assemblage of live coded visual experiments performed in the web browser. This performance is part of an on-going research on how …
As part of The 7th biennial Critical Code Studies Working Group, Winnie Soon and Geoff Cox have posted some discussion threads about the translation of our book Aesthetic Programming into Chinese. They are interested in the thinking about the parallels between forking and translation.
Introducing Aesthetic Programming: https://wg.criticalcodestudies.com/index.php?p=/discussion/127/week-4-introducing-aesthetic-programming-discussion-starter#latest
Translating Aesthetic …
Join us on Wednesday 2nd February 2022 at 15.00 (online) for our next research event with Daniel Chávez Heras reflecting on computer vision and photographic practice, including the example “Made by Machine: When AI met the Archive” (BBC, 2018). All welcome.
Deep learning computer vision systems are trained on …
At long last the special issue of AI & Society has been published, edited by Mitra Azar, Geoff Cox, and Leonardo Impett. Alongside our introduction, it includes contributions from María Jesús Schultz Abarca, Peter Bell, Tobias Blanke, Benjamin Bratton, Claudio Celis Bueno, Kate Crawford, Iain Emsley, Abelardo Gil-Fournier, Daniel Chávez …
Call for Participation CCSWG ’22, the 7th biennial Critical Code Studies Working Group, Jan 15 – Feb 14, 2022. As part of this Winnie Soon and Geoff Cox will run two threads (week of 7th Feb), firstly on their book Aesthetic Programming with a focus on its forking, and secondly …
Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI) is pleased to invite applications for a full time, funded PhD commencing in January 2022 or ASAP. We are interested in projects that examine the potential of networked performance.
Since the latter part of the twentieth century, and especially in (new) …
Join us on Wednesday 1st December 2021 at 15.00, online at https://centreforthestudyof.net/conversations/, for our next research event “Consider the Environment,” with artist Kristina Pulejkova, discussing sustainable approaches to making work using digital and web-based technologies. During the session, Kristina will present recent work and share open-source tools that …
The project explores how images move across infrastructures. In this context, we propose a two-day workshop to approach the digital image as a transactional device that we can use to trace the infrastructure through which it circulates. This hybrid workshop will be hosted by the MediaDock at the Lucerne School of Art and Design and …
Between 01 Nov and 20 December 2021, CSNI co-director Andrew Dewdney is writing a series of blog posts for Fotomuseum Winterthur entitled “Zombie Photography: What is the Photographic Image Still Doing?“. He explains more below.
“This contribution to Still Searching… is based upon the argument of my …
On 28 October 2021, Nicolas Malevé will deliver a collaborative paper as part of L’économie des images en sciences. Enjeux, modalités et impacts sur la production et la circulation des savoirs (XVIIIe-XXIe siècles) | The Economy of Images in the Sciences. How does it affect the production …
Join us on Wednesday 3rd November 2021 at 14.00 (online) for our next research event hosted by Possible Bodies (Jara Rocha, Femke Snelting) in conversation with Martino Morandi.
The industrial continuum of 3D is a sociotechnical figuration and phenomenon that can be observed when volumetric techniques and technologies flow between diverse industries …
CSNI’s Marloes de Valk has interviewed artist Joana Moll about her new project 4004, which sets out to expose the links between the explosion of techno-capitalism, the acceleration of climate change, and resulting decline of essential ecosystems. Digging into the infrastructures which are at the heart of today’s digital …
Online symposium, 8 and 9 October 2021
CSNI members Dan Barnard, Jon Lee, Elena Marchevska and Eugenie Pastor will present a panel titled “Networked performance” as part of the online conference Changing Perspectives in Live Performance.
The past year marked by a world pandemic has brought changing circumstances to …
On 8th September ay 17.00 (UK time), via Teams (link) we host a keynote presentation by Syed Mustafa Ali (Open University), as part of the annual ACI Research and Enterprise conference at LSBU.
Does computing need to be decolonised, and if so, how should such decolonisation be effected? Isn’t it …
As part of the 2021 Workshop Computing within Limits, CSNI’s Marloes de Valk wrote the paper “A pluriverse of local worlds: A review of Computing within Limits related terminology and practices“. Since 2015, the LIMITS workshop investigates the role of computing in human societies affected by real-world limits (ecological and otherwise) …
Online workshop held on Telegram, July 7 & 8, 4pm – 7pm CET.
An experiment in networked tracing, instigated by Nicolas Malevé, Nestor Siré, Gaia Tedone. Guest speakers and tracers include: Christina Cochior, Marloes de Valk, Swati Janu, Steffen Köhn, Sam Mercer, Jara Rocha, Winnie Soon, and more guests …
New issue of The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics on “The Changing Ontology of the Image” includes contributions by CSNI researchers.
Contributions by Emmanuel Alloa; Heba Y. Amin; Ina Blom; Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (Geoff Cox, Annet Dekker, Andrew Dewdney, and Katrina Sluis); Yves Citton; Claire Fontaine; …
Having recently been awarded a PhD from the Arts and Creative Industries Department at LSBU, Jeannette Ginslov is heading off to Malmö Sweden to begin two collaborations.
The first, Bodily Interfaces, is an AR and Screendance collaboration with Prof Susan Kozel from Malmö University, Icelandic Berlin based choreographer Margrét Sara …
Two day PhD workshop with Geoff Cox and Winnie Soon for Transart Institute, 26 & 27 June 2021, with an invited talk “Exploratory Diagramming” by Dean Kenning on 25 June.
The diagram exists in space and time, it is a material assemblage of marks and lines of thought, a map …
