Centre for the Study of the Networked Image
We understand publishing as not simply a means of dissemination of research but as a experimental field of practice and research object in itself. We aim to expand the means and meaning of what is considered to be publishing by investigating the situation in which the act of making things public is central. By creating a ‘publics’ we want to engage people with a broad set of intermingled and collaborative practices, both inherited and to be invented, to critically explore and actively engage with societal issues through experimental publishing.
Elena Marchevska has co-edited (with Laura Bissell, Jodie Hawkes) a special issue for the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, titled Matrescence and Media. It will be launched on Thursday 12 February 2026, 17.30 – 18.30 GMT, online. More details here.
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Peckham Digital: Artist and Computer is a podcast exploring the evolving relationship between artists and technology. Inspired by Ruth Leavitt’s ground-breaking 1976 anthology Artist and Computer, the series revisits the original ten questions posed to early computer artists — asking a new generation how and why they use computers in …
CSNI researcher Kendal Beynon discusses internet culture on Unthinking Photography with Valentina Tanni, researcher and author of the books Exit Reality and Memesthetics. They discuss the folklore of the Backrooms, amateur content production and the use of images in online communities.
“They have grown up in a system …
New book in the DATA browser series: DECENTRING ETHICS: AI ART AS METHOD. Edited by Vanessa Bartlett, Jasmin Pfefferkorn and Emilie K Sunde. Published in 2025 by Open Humanities Press.
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The book contains commissioned essays, in conversation pieces and artistic interventions, with contributions by …
Have you ever wanted to imagine an alternative web culture? Join this collective zine workshop on Saturday 19 July 2025 at The Photographers’ Gallery, led by Daniel Murray and CSNI’s Kendal Beynon. Further details at https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/zine-workshop-what-internet-made
Using a mix of digital media and handcraft, participants can work solo or in …
Join us for this launch event at The Photographers’ Gallery on Saturday 28 June, 14:00-17:30, aimed at those interested in art education and the potential for creative and critical use of image-based Generative AI in the secondary school classroom. Free, but please book a place.
The Ways of [Machine] Seeing…
Congratulations to Marloes de Valk for passing her PhD in April. The Image at the End of the World: Communities of practice redefining technology on a damaged Earth examines alternative approaches to technology that have less destructive effects on the environment, such as permacomputing, slow tech, and more. The project …
The transcript of the book presentation is now published in the latest issue of Media Theory (8.2). On November 29th 2023, Whose Time Is It? Asocial Robots, Syncholonialism and Artificial Chronological Intelligence by Stamatia Portanova was presented online, with cintributions by Iain Chambers, Luciana Parisi and Tiziana Terranova, in conversation …
CSNI researcher Kendal Beynon has published a chapter in From Net, City, World to Cloud, Market, Sea: Metaphors of the Internet. The book investigates how we narrate and imagine the internet with the help of metaphors. Net stands for the connections between computers and users; city conceives cyberspace as …
We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of the free online open access journal, A Peer-Reviewed Journal About Content/Form, with contributions by Manetta Berends & Simon Browne, Kendal Beynon, Edoardo Biscossi, Luca Cacini, Pierre Depaz, Mateus Domingos, Marie Naja Lauritzen Dias, Bilyana Palankasova, Esther Rizo-Casado, …
Our partners at DARC (Digital Aesthetics Research Centre, Aarhus University) have just released the call for this year’s transmediale research workshop, everything is a matter of distance, with a deadline of 24 Nov, 2024. More information, including link to apply, at https://transmediale.de/en/news/research-workshop-2025.
In relation to transmediale’s 2025 theme, …
Announcing an open call for Kunstlicht, ‘Online Curating’ guest edited by Annet Dekker. Deadline 5 September 2024; Published April 2025. Online curating challenges traditional models and methods for presenting, accessing and distributing art in relation to the use of space (from white cubes to online spaces) and collaboration (from …
CSNI researcher Kendal Beynon leads a workshop focused on making digital zines within spaces that encourage creative expression and agency, 17:00 – 20:00, Thu 25 Jul 2024, at The Photographers’ Gallery.
A bedroom is more than just a room; it’s a sanctuary to truly explore and understand oneself. It serves …
“Towards a Manifesto for the Liberated Image” is an article by Ben Burbridge and Andrew Dewdney which discusses the value of collaborative practices of image-making in relation to technological change and the mode of capitalist reproduction. It situates the discussion of collaboration in the context of a tradition of anti-capitalist …
Join us for Drawing Analogies at 18:30 – 20:00 on June 25th to hear David Burrows, Dean Kenning, and Mary Yacoob discuss some of the ideas in their forthcoming book Drawing Analogies: Diagrams in Art, Theory and Practice (co-authored with John Cussans, and published by Bloomsbury in January …
Media Theory 8.1 (2024) is a special issue on ‘Seeing Photographically‘, edited by Scott McQuire, Celia Lury, Jasmin Pfefferkorn, Daniel Palmer and Emilie K. Sunde. It includes an essay by Geoff Cox ‘Photography at a Standstill‘; also contributions by Ina Blom & Matthew Fuller, Seán Cubitt, …
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 …
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 …
We are happy to announce the release of the 14th edition of the e-journal MAP – Media / Archive / Performance on “Doing Documentation”, guest edited by Annet Dekker and Gabriella Giannachi. https://perfomap.de/map14/editorial-14
Documentation is a burgeoning field that concerns a range of disciplines and practices, including …
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 …
