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 …
Category: Research
To study and gain new knowledge and understandings of a set of related objects, the centre has established four research networks, which seek to disassemble and reassemble ideas of photography, computation, curation, archives and performance within network practices. Research projects define specific objects of attention and specific questions, whilst the research networks test approaches and methods in order to seek connections in networked practices.
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 …
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. …
Our visiting PhD researcher at CSNI, Laura Hopes, is currently exhibiting Speedwell, a commissioned public artwork, as part of Mayflower 400. Laura is part of a collective called Still/Moving, along with Martin Hampton and Léonie Hampton. For more details on the project and extensive documentation, see https://stillmoving.org/projects/speedwell.…
Associate Researcher at CSNI, Tim Fransen, presented at the first Association for Learning Technology (ALT) Summer Summit – ‘Learning Technology in a time of crisis, care and complexity‘ in August 2020. The event saw 50 sessions being delivered over 2 days with over 280 attendees from 24 countries. …
The latest issue of A Peer-Reviewed Journal About Research Networks is out now. Published by Aarhus University in partnership with transmediale, and edited by Christian Ulrik Andersen and Geoff Cox, contributions are from Sudipto Basu, Wenhao Bi, Nicola Bozzi, Iuliia Glushneva, Rebecca Holt, Özgün Eylül İşcen, Linda Kronman, Wing Ki …
Three takeaways from the Serpentine’s Future Art Ecosystems Report, published in an article for artnet.news. CSNI/Serpentine researcher Victoria Ivanova and the Serpentine’s chief technology officer Ben Vickers consider the future of art and technology from an infrastructural perspective.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, arts organizations have …
CSNI Meeting 1st July 15.00 – 17.00 (UK Time): The Politics of the Networked Image in Collaborative Research
The next CSNI meeting will take place on Wednesday the 1st of July, and will be launching a new research initiative between CSNI and Unthinking Photography (The Photographers’ Gallery), titled The …
The next CSNI research event includes a talk by Jussi Parikka and a discussion of a co-written article with Abelardo Gil-Fournier. Join us online at 15.00 UK time, 3rd June 2020. This is a closed event for CSNI researchers but if you’d like to join us please email us (mail …
Established in 1999, the Rhizome ArtBase is an international and diverse archive with over 2200 born-digital artworks, primarily works of net art. With its expansion in size and scope as well as complexity over the past 20 years, the commitment to preservation of the works in the ArtBase has become …
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 …
One of our researchers, Marco De Mutiis, is collating a collection and small archive of curatorial strategies and failures, coping mechanisms and experiments by artistic and cultural institutions, curators and practitioners reacting to the Covid 19 situation.
London South Bank University and The Photographers’ Gallery are pleased to invite applications for a full-time, funded PhD commencing in April 2020 or ASAP. This is an exciting opportunity to undertake a collaborative doctoral research project with the Digital Programme of TPG and The Centre for the Study of the Networked Image …
Talk by Jacob Lund @Borough Road Gallery, 17.00, 4th March 2020. All welcome.
Assuming that images are as foundational as language in the construction of the world – and now perhaps even more so – the talk will reflect on some of the ways in which digitalization effects changes in …
This publication is a raw unedited record of mail list exchanges in advance of a research workshop at the Canadian Embassy in Berlin (29-30 Jan 2020) and public presentations at Volksbühne (31 Jan 2020), as part of transmediale 2020 End to End which aimed to deal with the pervasiveness of …
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 …