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 …
Category: Publishing
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.
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 …
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 …
Workshop at École de recherche graphique in Brussels: 17-19 Jan 2022 | Online exchanges: 06 Dec – 17 Jan | Presentations at transmediale: 27 Jan 2022 | Online application here | Deadline for submissions: 14 Nov 2021 | organised by DARC and CSNI.
Rendering Research draws attention to how research …
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 …
CSNI’s Marloes de Valk has interviewed artist Joana Moll about her new project 4004, which sets out to expose the links between the explosion of techno-capitalism, the acceleration of climate change, and resulting decline of essential ecosystems. Digging into the infrastructures which are at the heart of today’s digital …
Annet Dekker’s edited book Curating Digital Art. From Presenting and Collecting Digital Art to Networked Co-Curation is now published, with various contributions from the CSNI community, including Marco De Mutiis, Katrina Sluis, Gaia Tedone, Jon Uriarte, a.o.
It asks: What is the role of the curator when organizing digital art …
Join us on Wednesday 6th October 2021 at 15.00 (online) for our next research event with Matthew Fuller, reflecting on some of the key aspects of his recent book with Eyal Weizman, Investigative Aesthetics (Verso, August 2021).
The investigative paradigm reconstructs incidents around clusters of specific details in …
We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of the free online open access journal, A Peer-Reviewed Journal About Research Refusal edited by Christian Ulrik Andersen & Geoff Cox. With contributions from CSNI researchers Marloes de Valk and Rosie Hermon, and with further contributions from Gabriel Pereira; Dusan …
As part of the 2021 Workshop Computing within Limits, CSNI’s Marloes de Valk wrote the paper “A pluriverse of local worlds: A review of Computing within Limits related terminology and practices“. Since 2015, the LIMITS workshop investigates the role of computing in human societies affected by real-world limits (ecological and otherwise) …
Online workshop held on Telegram, July 7 & 8, 4pm – 7pm CET.
An experiment in networked tracing, instigated by Nicolas Malevé, Nestor Siré, Gaia Tedone. Guest speakers and tracers include: Christina Cochior, Marloes de Valk, Swati Janu, Steffen Köhn, Sam Mercer, Jara Rocha, Winnie Soon, and more guests …
New issue of The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics on “The Changing Ontology of the Image” includes contributions by CSNI researchers.
Contributions by Emmanuel Alloa; Heba Y. Amin; Ina Blom; Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (Geoff Cox, Annet Dekker, Andrew Dewdney, and Katrina Sluis); Yves Citton; Claire Fontaine; …
Screen Walk: One-click install to autonomy?
Wednesday 30 June 18.00 BST
Join Aymeric Mansoux and Roel Roscam Abbing in a live-streamed presentation.
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How can art and culture offer online spaces outside of corporate platforms and infrastructures, and what does it involve? Aymeric Mansoux and Roel Roscam Abbing will take …
On 26th April, 17.00 BST, Rhizome will launch the new Artbase, produced in connection with Lozana Rossenova’s recently completed PhD research (at CSNI/Rhizome). The ArtBase has been re-implemented in a new software infrastructure based on the framework of Linked Open Data (LOD), which is part of the broader concept of …
On Friday, 23 April 2021, 14:30 CET/13.30 GMT, Winnie Soon (Aarhus University) and Geoff Cox (CSNI) will introduce their new book Aesthetic Programming – A Handbook of Software Studies. The launch event coincides with the release of the interactive web version, like the book, also designed by Open Source Publishing. …
Just published: Introduction to Ways of Machine Seeing for AI & Society by Mitra Azar, Geoff Cox, and Leonardo Impett. How do machines, and, in particular, computational technologies, change the way we see the world? This special issue brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines to explore the …
The new book Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies, by Winnie Soon and Geoff Cox, is out now, and available to buy as paper copy or download for free.
The book explores the technical as well as cultural imaginaries of programming from its insides. It follows the principle …
CSNI’s Marloes de Valk has interviewed Nestor Siré to discuss his artistic practice and how he has engaged with the development of alternative networks that arose in Cuba, from book rental shops to El Paquete Semanal and SNET, the country-wide Wi-Fi mesh network run by gamers. The interview is part …
Simon Browne will introduce his project the bootleg library and run a workshop on building a parallel library for CSNI and The Photographers’ Gallery on the networked image. Book a place at https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/talks-and-events/bootleg-library.
Presentation: The Bootleg Library, Thursday 26th November, 18:00-19:30
(Recording of the talk can be found …
CSNI’s Nicolas Malevé’s open access article for AI & Society (Springer) is now published online. It is part of the upcoming special issue Ways of Machine Seeing that will be released in 2021 (co-edited by Mitra Azar, Geoff Cox & Leonardo Impett). The abstract follows, and article can be read …