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.
We invite you to join us on Tuesday 6 December, 18.00-20.00, at The Photographers’ Gallery, for a discussion on Learning experiments in computer vision and visual literacy. What opportunities and challenges does AI present for the art and design classroom?
This open discussion follows on from two workshops with …
We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of the free online open access journal, A Peer-Reviewed Journal About Rendering Research, with contributions by Alexandra Anikina, Vítor Blanco-Fernández, Elly Clarke & Clareese Hill, Malthe Stavning Erslev, Hanna Grześkiewicz, Miriam Mattiessen & Anne Lee Steele, One Research …
Workshop at London South Bank University and King’s College, London: 18-20 Jan 2023 | Online exchanges: 20 Dec-18 Jan 2023 | Presentations at transmediale, Akademie der Künste Berlin: 02 Feb 2023 | Online publication APRJA: Summer 2023 | Online application HERE | Deadline for submissions: 11 Nov 2022.
The three …
As part of the ongoing research project (Ways of Machine Seeing), Daniel Chávez Heras (King’s College) and Nicolas Malevé (CSNI) will be presenting “Repurposing Ways of Seeing” for the Aesthetics of Machine Vision conference at University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense, 15-16 September 2022. Keynotes are Jussi Parikka (Aarhus University) …
CSNI researchers Teodora Fartan and Paula Roush will both participate in the Museums Without Walls conference at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, August 15-17, with keynotes by Michael Connor (Rhizome), Sarah Kenderdine (Experimental Museology Lab / EPFL), Pippin Barr (Concordia University), and Sara Diamond (OCAD University). The publicity materials state: “In …
Join us on Wednesday 1st June 2022 at 15.00 at LSBU (room BR-101 at LSBU, 103 Borough Road) and online at https://centreforthestudyof.net/conversations, for our next research event with Winnie Soon. All welcome.
net.art generator is not just only generating art, but also generating discourses over time. The artwork, created …
Presentation by Associate Professor Katrina Sluis, Head of Photography and Media Arts, School of Art & Design (and CSNI co-Director), Tuesday 17 May 2022, 1–2pm (AEST, so 04.00am UK time, aargh!). Lecture Theatre (room 1.02), Sir Roland Wilson Building, 120 McCoy Circuit, ANU. Register at https://soad.cass.anu.edu.au/events/katrina-sluis-curating-networked-image-between-computation-commodification. Those who can’t …
Possible Bodies (Jara Rocha, Femke Snelting) feat. Elodie Mugrefya will present their upcoming book Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence on Thursday 24th March at 17.30, at ERG (école de recherche graphique), 87 rue du Page – 1050 Bruxelles – as part of the Rendering Research workshop organized by …
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 …
