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 …
Category: Curating
Curation as a term and a practice has spread beyond it traditional meaning as an activity of specialist and expert cultural knowledge. Curation is now an activity of commodity marketing as well as a personal activity of network users: the possibilities of automated curating software and presentation forms in various hardware are thriving. By bringing together ideas around on- and offline curating, we want to analyse the practice and politics of curation, at a time when the systems of curation are increasingly reconfigured. Such analysis allows new formations of power and control to be conceptualised and new contradictions or developments to be revealed, which in turn may lead to an expanded understanding of curation as a practice.
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 …
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.
Applications are invited for a new Artist in Residence programme at London South Bank University (LSBU). We are seeking to appoint a dynamic and enthusiastic person who is seeking time and access to resources to develop their practice and would benefit demonstrably from doing this within the practice, research and …
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 …
Art and the Internet: The Network as a Research Area and Theme in New Visual Artistic Practices Research and Development Project, funded by Agencia Estatal de Investigación. Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness. Government of Spain). Principal investigator (PI): Juan Martín Prada. Universidad de Cádiz (Spain).
Research members: Andrew Dewdney. …
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 …
New research to find innovative solutions for documenting digital art. New work by academics and curators will provide museums with innovative solutions for documenting, collecting and displaying digital art.
Currently written descriptions, questionnaires, photos or at times video recordings are used to document digital art in museums, primarily from …
From 1st December 2018, the CSNI researcher Katrina Sluis will be undertaking a Swiss National Science Foundation funded research project “Curating Photography in the Networked Image Economy” in collaboration with Dr Wolfgang Brückle, Lucerne University of Applied Arts and Sciences, Fotomuseum Winterthur, FotoColectania and The Photographers’ Gallery…
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 …
The exhibition All I Know Is What’s On The Internet at The Photographers’ Gallery in London, presents the work of 11 contemporary artists and groups seeking to map, visualise and question the cultural dynamics of 21st Century image culture. It is curated by the CSNI researcher Katrina Sluis, whom you can …
Last March, the CSNI PhD researcher Lozana Rossenova took part in the panel ‘Curation and Power’, with Jessica Ogden, Anisa Hawes, Margaret Hedstrom and Morehshin Allahyari, at the National Forum on Ethics and Archiving the Web, NYC (22-24 March 2018).
Watch the video documentation here:
https://vimeo.com/277336006…
The second annual CSNI Summer School took place in the 7th of June at Jerwood Space in London and it was a rich day of presentations and discussions. This year’s invited speakers included Dr. Geoff Cox and Dr. Magda Tyżlik-Carver who presented their current research projects and responded to the …
Annet Dekker recently published her new book, Collecting and Conserving Net Art, which explores the qualities and characteristics of net art and its influence on conservation practices. By addressing and answering some of the challenges facing net art and providing an exploration of its intersection with conservation, the book casts …
Alan Warburton’s work Homo Economicus is part of a new exhibition at the Somerset House Studios which questions the implications of producing, collecting and sorting data for society and the individual. The exhibition, titled Complex Values, includes the works of three resident artists at the Somerset House Studios: Alan …
What does photographic curation mean in an era of the fluid image and during a time of non-medium specificity?
On the 2nd of June 2018, Katrina Sluis, CSNI Researcher and Digital Curator at The Photographers’ Gallery, spoke in the ‘Encounters: Photography and Curation’ symposium – a collaboration between The Photographers’ …
On the 10th of May 2018, Professor Andrew Dewdney presented a talk with the title “What Is The Current Fascination With VR On The Part Of Museums And Art Galleries?” in the Contemporary Art Society’s 2018 Annual Conference. This year’s annual conference explored the rapid development of digital …