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 …
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.
“‘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 …
Join us for a ServPub workshop facilitated by In-grid and Systerserver, on 24 November 2023, 13.00-17.00, at Borough Road Gallery (LSBU), 103 Borough Road, London SE1 0AA. All welcome.
ServPub is an experimental platform for research and practice on computational publishing, to reflect collectively on affective infrastructures, minor tech and …
Join us online (https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/82837559868) on Friday 20 October at 10.00 (UK time/11.00 CET) for a talk by Inge Hinterwaldner, “Interlacing documentation and critical analysis of online art – problem or chance? A demo with model building and assembling”. This is a joint event with the Networked Images research …
Join us on 01 November 2023, 15.00-17.00, at the London Doctoral College (LSBU Hub, 116 London Road, SE1 6LN), for a workshop with Michael Assis, PhD Candidate at Bard Graduate Center in New York, who is visiting researcher at CSNI across October and November 2023. All welcome.
While NFTs …
We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of the free online open access journal, A Peer-Reviewed Journal About Minor Tech, with contributions by Camille Crichlow, Teodora Sinziana Fartan, Susanne Förster, Inte Gloerich, Mara Karagianni, Jung-Ah Kim, Freja Kir, Inga Luchs, Alasdair Milne, Shusha Niederberger, Jack …
Join us on Wednesday 04 October 2023, 15.00-17.00, at Borough Road Gallery (LSBU) for our next research event with Kristoffer Gansing who will present The Cinema of Extractions – On Film as Infrastructure for Research. All welcome.
Join online at https://meet.jit.si/CSNI_The_Cinema_of_Extractions
Why is Netflix so obsessed with Adam Sandler …
On Friday 08 September, 18.30-20.00 at The Photographers’ Gallery, as part of TPG Friday Lates, CSNI researcher Teodora Sinziana will take part in the panel Between Worlds. Join both Teodora Sinziana and Nick Murray to discuss ideas around the death of digital spaces and the creation of ‘virtual …
Join Tzu-Tung Lee (artist in residence at Delfina Foundation) and their collaborators Winnie Soon and Geoff Cox for a workshop exploring the translation of code and software programs, at Delfina Foundation, Wednesday 13 September, 15-18.00. The workshop is free but booking is required. More details on the workshop can …
“Carrier Bag Fictions” is an exhibition by CSNI researcher Mateus Domingos, and runs from 2 September to 28 October 2023, at Modern Painters, New Decorators, Loughborough, UK.
“Carrier Bag Fictions” features textiles, drawings and text inspired by Loughborough’s Luddite history. In the 19th Century, technology transformed the work of textile workers. …
Marco de Mutiis (Fotomuseum Winterthur, and a CSNI researcher) has organised an evening event on Friday, 21 July 2023, 18.00 – 21.00, at V&A South Kensington, Room 99, The Digital Gallery, Photography Centre. Free event. More details at https://www.fotomuseum.ch/en/events-post/performances-und-talks-the-lure-of-the-image-screen-bodies/
How and why are we seduced by images? What draws us …