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.
Online symposium, 8 and 9 October 2021
CSNI members Dan Barnard, Jon Lee, Elena Marchevska and Eugenie Pastor will present a panel titled “Networked performance” as part of the online conference Changing Perspectives in Live Performance.
The past year marked by a world pandemic has brought changing circumstances to …
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 …
On 8th September ay 17.00 (UK time), via Teams (link) we host a keynote presentation by Syed Mustafa Ali (Open University), as part of the annual ACI Research and Enterprise conference at LSBU.
Does computing need to be decolonised, and if so, how should such decolonisation be effected? Isn’t it …
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 …
Online event: Tuesday 13 July, 11.00 BST
What is the role of audience documentation of artworks in contemporary network culture? Speakers include Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert, Russell Dornan, Kylie Budge and Rob Horning. More information and booking at https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/work-art-age-audience-documentation?mc_cid=6f73aacc55&mc_eid=51f40d830e.
The Work of Art in an Age of Audience Documentation forms part of Documenting …
Two day PhD workshop with Geoff Cox and Winnie Soon for Transart Institute, 26 & 27 June 2021, with an invited talk “Exploratory Diagramming” by Dean Kenning on 25 June.
The diagram exists in space and time, it is a material assemblage of marks and lines of thought, a map …
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 …
Keynote presentation by Geoff Cox and Nicolas Malevé as part of Digital Visual Media and Metadata, Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities Research Workshop at Istituto Svizzero, Rome, 8 June 2021.
Berger begins Ways of Seeing with the statement: “Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognises before it can speak.” …
Join us online on 2nd June 2021 at 15.00 for our next research event with Andrew Dewdney: On the Importance of Making an Argument – a short account of writing Forget Photography in the first year of Covid.
Arguments are propositions and productive for thought and programmatic for a field …
Marco De Mutiis (Digital Curator at Fotomuseum Winterthur) and Jon Uriarte (Curator for the Digital Programme at The Photographers’ Gallery) will attempt to map the current development of NFTs and blockchain technologies from their curatorial perspective. NFT stands for non-fungible token, a unit of data or token stored on a …
Online presentation with Annet Dekker, Gaia Tedone and Marialaura Ghidini of The Broken Timeline – a collection of +250 online exhibitions from the last decades, accompanied by an overview of technical developments – at the Symposium Calculating Control organised by the Zentrum für Netzkunst in Berlin: Monday May 3, 6pm CET.
The …
Join us online on 5th May 2021 at 15.00 for our next research event when we hear from Ryan Nolan (Aarhus University).
Ryan will share some ideas that stem from his PhD research, focussing in particular on the (often reviled) notion of “medium specificity”. In the history of art criticism, …
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. …
Join us online on 3rd March 2021 at 15.00 for our next research event when we hear from Dan Barnard (LSBU/Fast Familiar).
In this talk, Dan will outline some of the work he is doing as part of a project called The Networked Condition: The Environmental Impacts of Digital Cultural …
Machine Vision’s Visions, roundtable discussion
Wednesday 17 February, 19:00 London / 20:00 Berlin / 14:00 NYC
Participants: Peter Bell, Tega Brain, Leonardo Impett, Fabian Offert
Register via this link.
The project Curating Photography in the Networked Image Economy studies the networked image and its various intersections with curating, and has been …
Between Camera & Network: Art and Documentation in Post-Photographic Culture is a series of talks at The Photographers’ Gallery over three weeks in March involving artists, curators, photographers, conservators, educators, technologists and museum professionals. Each talk explores a different aspect of the changing role of photography in art and digital …
Join us online on 10th February 2021 at 15.00 for our next research event when we hear from Irina Aristarkhova (University of Michigan). The session will be devoted to several major themes she raises in her book Arrested Welcome: Hospitality in Contemporary Art, with a special focus on two …
Join us online on 6th January 2021 at 15.00 for our next research event at which Rosie Hermon and Marloes de Valk will present their contribution to the transmediale workshop Research Refusal. Their proposal explores the process and practice of delinking within and through digital networks as an act …
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 …
