Centre for the Study of the Networked Image
We organise and take part in various events, including our own series of monthly reading group “conversations”. In these sessions, speakers are invited to present aspects of their research and share a key text to focus discussion. You are welcome to search through our archive of previous events.
Join us on 5 March 2025, 15:00-17:00, at LSBU’s XR Studio, Room LH135, The Hub, for a demo session of the technology available at our latest research facility – the XR Studio, followed by a talk by XR Studio Manager and artist Kristina Pulejkova.
This is a chance to visit …
Join us on Tuesday 5th Feb, 15-17:00 at Borough Road Gallery, to hear Zaiba Jabbar as she shares the journey of founding HERVISIONS, a platform that has become a vital force in reshaping digital art spaces.
This talk explores how HERVISIONS emerged as a response to the need for diverse …
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, …
CSNI researcher Teodora Sinziana Alata, along with Tadej Vindis, is curating the public lecture series Virtual Realisms, taking place throughout the 2024-25 academic year at the University of Westminster, Harrow campus. The first of these takes place at 18:00 on 14th November 2024. Register here.
Pete Jiadong Qiang …
CSNI researcher Kendal Beynon, along with Alex Falk, is hosting a Crash Course, at V2_ in Rotterdam. Hybrid Event (Online/Offline). More details at https://v2.nl/events/a-crash-course-in-art-media-technology-internet-culture-x-society.
The internet and its culture have undeniably reshaped our lives and society in multifaceted ways. It has for example enabled global connectivity and brought …
Online presentation/conversation on 6th November, 18:00-20:00, organized by Exhibition Research Lab, as part of The CONTACTLESS CONDITION exhibition by Ofri Cnaani, with Annet Dekker (University of Amsterdam & CSNI), researcher/curator Dr. Daniela Agostinho (Aarhus University), and moderated by Prof. Joasia Krysa (LJMU).
Inspired by the works in the exhibition, the …
Join us on Thursday 7th Nov at 18:00 for an online conversation between Bassam El Baroni, Patrizia Costantin and Parastoo Jafari about the connections between curating and ‘archipelagic thinking’. This event is organised by recent graduates of MA Curating Art & Public programmes (LSBU & Whitechapel Gallery) in the context …
Join us on Wednesday October 9th, 16.00-18.00, at Borough Road Gallery (103 Borough Road, LSBU) for a presentation by Martin Zeilinger entitled Generative AI & Concept Art: Mean Images in the Creative Industries. All welcome.
This talk tracks ongoing research regarding the highly polarised perception of generative AI tools …
Angels, Bots, Cute AIs and Animism: A Conversation on Cyberfeminism and AI Imaginaries, Wednesday July 10, 2024 | 18:00 BST | 103 Borough Road Gallery, London SE1 0AA. REGISTER HERE
The Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics group in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image invites …
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 …
Join us for the The Great Netfix Finissage and launch of the VHS network, on 2nd July 2024, 6-8pm, at Borough Road Gallery / Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, London South Bank University.
In the mood for goofy, quirky or swoonworthy? At this concluding event of The …
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 …
The Great Netfix by a Video Store After the End of the World, 5 June – 3 July 2024. Borough Road Gallery / Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, London South Bank University. Open weekdays 14-17 and by appointment. Opening: 5 June, 6 – 8pm. Finissage: 2 July, …
Teodora Sinziana Alata will be contributing to the “Towards an Automated Art? Learning Machines, Human Creativity and Uncertainty” international conference in Lisbon on the 24th of May, with a paper “Troubling the Engine Aesthetic: Reflections on Volumetric Visualities and the Networks that Inhabit Them”.
As an extension of her research …
CSNI co-Director Annet Dekker will present ‘Curating Online: Art in Space and Time’ at ISEA2024 in Brisbane, Wednesday 26 June (offline + live streamed), https://isea2024.isea-international.org/…
Networked Images/ASCA organises ‘Precarious Collections and Data Colonialism‘ – masterclass with Ofri Cnaani and Annet Dekker, followed with a performance lecture by Ofri Cnaani moderated by Noa Roei, 18 June 2024, 15:00-16:30 (Masterclass), 17:00-18:30 (Public Lecture), VOX-POP in Amsterdam.
Explore the recent discourse on ‘data colonialism’ and its …
“‘paula’ & Work: A Document on the Machinic Enslavement in Academic Capitalism 2023-24” is an exhibition by paula roush, at Borough Road Gallery, London South Bank University. Join us for the preview of the publication-installation on Tuesday, May 7, 6-9pm, and artist’s talk “Ai Disruption: AI, Education, and Algorithms of …
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 …
CSNI researcher Teodora Sinziana Alata is presenting a paper titled “Affective Attunement within Virtual Ecologies: Immersive Worlding as Posthuman Storytelling Practice”, on 25th April, as part of the Politics of the Machines 2024 conference in Aachen, Germany, which reflects on game engines as software infrastructures, worlding with reality media, speculative storytelling, …
The workshop “University as Infrastructure” will take place on Tuesday 16 April 2024, 09:30 – 12:30, at AIAS (Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies), Aarhus Unversity, Denmark. We will collaboratively diagram the data and software systems on which all Universities have become dependent. More details and to register, at https://aias.au.dk/events/show/artikel/workshop-university-as-infrastructure.…
