Centre for the Study of the Networked Image
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.
Researcher at CSNI, Tim Fransen, presented at the 14th Open Education Conference: Advancing Open Education Practices (OER23) in April 2023.
Tim’s presentation focused on Map of Essex, an open educational resource that enables the public to freely access, learn about and explore a high-resolution digital version of a …
Two doctoral scholarships are available in the School of Arts and Creative Industries, London South Bank University. One of these is based at CSNI. More details at https://www.findaphd.com/phds/programme/phd-opportunities-in-school-of-art-and-creative-industries-lsbu/?p5506.…
CSNI researchers Teodora Fartan and Paula Roush will both participate in the Museums Without Walls conference at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, August 15-17, with keynotes by Michael Connor (Rhizome), Sarah Kenderdine (Experimental Museology Lab / EPFL), Pippin Barr (Concordia University), and Sara Diamond (OCAD University). The publicity materials state: “In …
The Triangle Network Forum addresses some of the common challenges that independent art spaces and artist collectives are facing today, in different parts of the world. As a condensed series of talks and discussions, the public Forum introduces new voices and ideas to conversations that have been taking place internally …
Friday 27 May, 10-12
In this session the curatorial reading group reflects on some of the ideas around the online residency raised in previous sessions, and discusses if there is interest in initiating its own digital residency within an online programme, and the forms that this could take.
This is …
Presentation by Associate Professor Katrina Sluis, Head of Photography and Media Arts, School of Art & Design (and CSNI co-Director), Tuesday 17 May 2022, 1–2pm (AEST, so 04.00am UK time, aargh!). Lecture Theatre (room 1.02), Sir Roland Wilson Building, 120 McCoy Circuit, ANU. Register at https://soad.cass.anu.edu.au/events/katrina-sluis-curating-networked-image-between-computation-commodification. Those who can’t …
Our next session will be with Off Site Projects on April 29th, 2022, from 10 – 12.
[Un]sustainable Practices and the Online Residency
Drifting between personal experiences, collectivised knowledge, and observations of the online gallery scene, this combination talk and workshop by Elliott Burns of Off Site Project, addresses the …
For our next session on March 18th, 2022, from 10 – 12 Jamie Wyld will present Vital Capacities, an accessible virtual residency platform supporting diverse artists to participate in international residencies, set up in 2020. The presentation and following discussion will address accessibility and artistic practice and the integration of …
The next session of the Curatorial Reading group will be on Friday, January 28th from 10-12.00 (UK time) with curator and writer Hana Noorali. In this session Hana will present the TRANSMISSIONS project and we will explore questions about digital space and inclusivity. The reading is “Sick Woman Theory…
Annet Dekker’s edited book Curating Digital Art. From Presenting and Collecting Digital Art to Networked Co-Curation is now published, with various contributions from the CSNI community, including Marco De Mutiis, Katrina Sluis, Gaia Tedone, Jon Uriarte, a.o.
It asks: What is the role of the curator when organizing digital art …
The exhibition explores the relationship between photography and play. It investigates the notion of image play, creating unexpected connections between the history of photography, the gamification of the visible as well as practices of image-making with and within computer games. The exhibition runs from 5th June to 10 Oct 20021 …
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 …
The Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI) and Whitechapel Gallery are pleased to invite applications for a full time, funded PhD commencing in April 2021 or ASAP.
Deadline for applications is 21 March 2021 at 5pm.
We are interested in projects that examine the potential of …
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 …
Organizers Sarah Cook and Roddy Hunter were joined by artists, curators, archivists and an international group of graduate students to jointly investigate the question of preserving networked art practices during the ISEA 2020 virtual conference. The organizers conceived of such practices in a broad sense, spanning beyond art on the …
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 Kuhlmann’s film installation Being Human…
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 …
