Centre for the Study of the Networked Image
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
The “bootleg library” is a particular, situated …
Join us online on 4th November at 15.00 for our next research event which marks the initial stages of a new project exploring a contemporary reimagining of the crowd. We will hear from CSNI’s Simon Terrill and guest speaker Jane Hall from Assemble. Jane will introduce Legacy Russell’s text Glitch …
The COVID-19 pandemic has been yet another turning point in the history of the internet and our reliance upon it. Galleries and arts institutions are looking anew at how we might use technology for expanded curatorial methodologies. This screening and discussion with the artists takes Christopher Kulendran Thomas and Annika Kuhlmann’s film installation Being Human…
The Borough Road Digital Archive would like to invite you to co-write the User Manifesto. The event is free but tickets must be booked here.
“When there are no clear boundaries, routines and institutional practices to produce forms of art, subjects and knowledge such as the ones we are …
CSNI’s Annet Dekker, Geoff Cox, and Lozana Rossenova, along with Rhizome’s Dragan Espenschied and artist Nastja Säde, will contribute to the workshop Networked art practice after digital preservation, organised by Sarah Cook (University of Glasgow) and Roddy Hunter (University of Huddersfield), as part of ISEA 2020, on October …
Join us online on 7th October at 15.00 for our next research event at which we will hear Marco de Mutiis present his in-progress PhD project How To Win At Photography. We have also invited Seth Giddings (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton) to join us as discussant. …
CSNI partner institutions Fotomuseum Winterthur and The Photographers’ Gallery have invited selected artists to perform guided explorations of specific online and digital spaces in which their core artistic research and practice takes place. Each video stream is conceived as a format blurring the boundaries between a guided tour and a …
Talk by Helen Pritchard @Borough Road Gallery, 17.00, 5th February 2020. All welcome.
The contemporary infrastructural complex of mining and measuring undergrounds depends on software tools for geological data handling, interpretation, and 3D-visualisation. Such tools power techno-colonial subsurface exploration with computational techniques and paradigms. In this talk I will present …
Talk by Laura Hopes @Borough Road Gallery, 17.00, 8th January 2020. All welcome.
In this talk I explore the power dynamics inherent within the naming of something; the conferring of ownership, of defining accessibility to or relationships with a subject. Central to this examination is the theoretical and political sleight …
Talk by Wing-Ki Lee @Borough Road Gallery, 17.00, 4th December 2019. All welcome.
Background reading: Wing-Ki Lee, “Derivative Work and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement: Three Perspectives”, in Visualizing the Street: New Practices of Documenting, Navigating and Imagining the City, edited by Pedram Dibazar and Judith Naeff, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University …
CSNI’s Co-Director Dr Annet Dekker and PhD Researcher Lozana Rossenova (image above) attended the 16th edition of the International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES, for short), which took place 16–20th September, 2019, at the Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam.
The 16th edition of the International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES, …
CSNI’s Nicolas Malevé participated in ImageNet Birthday Party with guest of honour Dr. Fei-Fei Li (Stanford University), and chaired by Prof Alan Blackwell (University of Cambridge). ImageNet has become one of the most influential visual datasets in the fields of Deep Learning and AI. More than 14 million photographs were …
How do we think about networks under post-digital conditions? What does this imply for research?
The next transmediale festival, End to End (E2E), aims to deal with the pervasiveness of networks and their limits. It refers to Robert Filliou’s The Eternal Network (1983), pointing to the interconnectedness of everyday-life actions across …
Artist and CSNI researcher Nicolas Malevé has written a computer script that cycles through ImageNet — a vast dataset of 14,197,122 photographs — at a speed of 90 milliseconds per image. To exhibit all images, this runs over a two month period (until 01 Sep 2019) as a live stream…
As outlined in a previous post on this blog, one of the core themes of the 2019 CSNI Summer School was collaborative research. The afternoon presentations and discussions included a few current research projects at CSNI, carried out in collaboration with arts organisations, including Rhizome, Serpentine Galleries, and …
The third annual CSNI Summer School took place at the Jerwood Space, London on 13 June with twenty-six research affiliated delegates in attendance. The conference brought together researchers and practitioners examining the rapidly changing and expanding nature of the networked image and how collaborative partnerships in the arts are an …
Nicolas Malevé’s presentation from the Image/Net/Works conference at Fotomuseum Winterthaur, and organised by Lucerne University of Applied Arts and Sciences in collaboration with Fotomuseum Winterthur, is now available HERE.
For more on the conference, https://www.fotomuseum.ch/en/explore/situations/155519.…
The CSNI PhD researcher Victoria Ivanova took part in the programme ‘Mourning Money’ organised by UKK (Organisation for Artists and Curators in Denmark) at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts in Copenhagen. Ivanova contributed to the panel ‘MACRO’ on the 18th of January 2019 along …
Over 4 days in January 2019, CSNI researcher Katrina Sluis worked with the artist Jonas Lund to transform the 3rd Floor of The Photographers’ Gallery into an influencing office tasked with reversing Brexit. Part installation, part performance, part working think tank, Operation Earnest Voice aimed to explore and interrogate the numerous tools, methods and strategies used to influence …
In dialogue with The Photographers’ Gallery exhibition All I Know Is What’s On The Internet, the one day symposium Post-Capitalist Photography Now! explored issues around photography’s capacity to challenge neoliberalism and bring alternative systems into view, and the roles of public institutions and the art world in such …
