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.
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…
Please join us for the first annual conference of the Digital x Data Research Centre, 03-04 July 2025, at London South Bank University.
How do different disciplinary traditions approach the concept of infrastructure, and what can we learn from the intersection(ity) of positions?
Keynotes by Orit Halpern (Professor and …
The final lecture in the Virtual Realisms public series, curated by CSNI PhD researcher Teodora Sinziana Alata in collaboration with Tadej Vindis, will take place on the 12th of June 2025, 18:00-20:00, in the Fabrication Lab, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS.
This lecture traces the long-standing …
The fifth lecture in the Virtual Realisms public series, curated by CSNI PhD researcher Teodora Sinziana Alata in collaboration with Tadej Vindis, will take place on the 8th of May 2025, 18:00-20:00 in the Fabrication Lab, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road London NW1 5LS.
In an age of ecological …
Join us on Tuesday 6th May 2025, 18:30-20:00, at The Photographers’ Gallery, for The Hypothetical Image: Reading the Artifacts of Generative AI, a talk by artist, hacker and policy researcher Eryk Salvaggio. Organised by Digital x Data Research Centre. Book a place here.
How might we “read” the …
Join us on Wednesday 30th April 2025, 15-17:00 at Borough Road Gallery, for a presentation by Amanda Wasielewski entitled “The End of Photography Again: Digital Photography After AI”. All welcome.
This talk addresses the historical and theoretical concerns for the field of photography after the widespread uptake of generative AI …
The fifth lecture in the Virtual Realisms public series, curated by CSNI PhD researcher Teodora Sinziana Alata in collaboration with Tadej Vindis, will take place on the 10th of April 2025, 18:00-20:00 in the Fabrication Lab, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road London NW1 5LS.
The Anthropocene, the geological epoch …
A workshop for PhD students, ECRs and staff at London South Bank University on Tuesday, 8th April, 2025 [12-3, meet in Borough Road Gallery].
We walk for exercise, for leisure, for transportation, for contemplation. We walk by choice or out of necessity, with ease or with difficulty, alone or with …
Join us on Wednesday 2nd April 2025, 12:30-14:00 at Borough Road Gallery, for a presentation by visiting researcher Lorenzo Aimo entitled “(Re)Framing GenAI from a Post-Photographic Perspective: Images Inside and Outside AI”. All welcome.
What is happening to the concept of the “image” in the era of Generative AI? This …
Join us on Wednesday 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 …
The Creative Coding Bookclub is a new monthly event, facilitated by Mickey and Luis, in which we aim to actively work our way through writings that inspire the reader with practical coding challenges, while sharing our journey online and in-person. The first of these will be on Wednesday 26th February, …
Tracing the intersections of AI and critical race theory, join us for a panel conversation on Thursday 20 Feb, 18:30-20:00, at Whitechapel Gallery. Ramon Amaro, Maya Indira Ganesh, and Maria Dada will use Donald Rodney’s Autoicon as a springboard, situating Rodney’s work in the social and political landscape of …
On Friday 14 February, as part of Talks on Everyday Imaging vol. 2 : The Self-Centred and the Networked, organised by the Eidolon Centre, CSNI’s Kendal Beynon (PhD researcher in partnership with The Photographers’ Gallery) will be in conversation with Olga Goriunova (Professor and Director of Research in …
The third lecture in the Virtual Realisms public series, curated by CSNI PhD researcher Teodora Sinziana Alata in collaboration with Tadej Vindis, will take place on the 6th of February 2025, 18:00-20:00, Lecture Theatre 3, at Harrow Campus, University of Westminster.
Decades after canonical media theorists predicted that new media …
Join us on Wednesday 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 …
