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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Presentation and workshop by paula roush at the Photobook Week Aarhus, this year under the theme Future Revisited, to shape a new discourse around things such as Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence. Full details can be found at https://photobookweek.org/updates/pwa-ai-workshop-program/.
Online presentation + Q&A: “A.I. Disruption: Exploring Experimental Photobook Publishing with …
