Presentations and launch of publication at transmediale, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, on 2nd Feb, 11.00-12.30. Following a process of open exchanges and a three-day research workshop in London, at London South Bank University and King’s College, London, the presentation/publication brings together researchers who address the problems of technological scale, …
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.
As part of Toward a Minor Tech workshop at London South Bank University and King’s College, London (18-20 Jan 2023), there will be public talks by Marloes de Valk and Tung-Hui Hu. All welcome.
Marloes de Valk – Damaged Earth Catalog: Technological Strategies and Critique for a Depleted World…
We are happy to announce the publication of Live Coding: A User’s Manual, by Alan F. Blackwell, Emma Cocker, Geoff Cox, Alex McLean and Thor Magnusson (MIT Press 2022). This book is open access and can be freely downloaded in PDF, Mobi and Epub formats, and further edited, …
Join us online at 18.00 CET (17.00 UK) on 29 November for a presentation and discussion with Stamatia Portanova about her new book Whose Time is it? Asocial Robots, Syncolonialism, and Artificial Chronological Intelligence (The Contemporary Condition, Sternberg Press). Introduced by Geoff Cox (LSBU) and Jacob Lund (Aarhus University), with …
Please join us for the launch of Tung-Hui Hu’s new book Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection (MIT Press 2022) at 18.00, on 19th January 2023, at The Photographers’ Gallery. Book at https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/talk-digital-lethargy.
Sometimes, interacting with digital platforms, we want to be passive—in those moments of dissociation …
Two doctoral scholarships are available in the School of Arts and Creative Industries, London South Bank University. One of these is based at CSNI. More details at https://www.findaphd.com/phds/programme/phd-opportunities-in-school-of-art-and-creative-industries-lsbu/?p5506.…
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 …