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.
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 …
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 …
Join us on Thursday 7th Nov at 18:00 for an online conversation between Bassam El Baroni, Patrizia Costantin and Parastoo Jafari about the connections between curating and ‘archipelagic thinking’. This event is organised by recent graduates of MA Curating Art & Public programmes (LSBU & Whitechapel Gallery) in the context …
Announcing an open call for Kunstlicht, ‘Online Curating’ guest edited by Annet Dekker. Deadline 5 September 2024; Published April 2025. Online curating challenges traditional models and methods for presenting, accessing and distributing art in relation to the use of space (from white cubes to online spaces) and collaboration (from …
Join us for the The Great Netfix Finissage and launch of the VHS network, on 2nd July 2024, 6-8pm, at Borough Road Gallery / Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, London South Bank University.
In the mood for goofy, quirky or swoonworthy? At this concluding event of The …
The Great Netfix by a Video Store After the End of the World, 5 June – 3 July 2024. Borough Road Gallery / Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, London South Bank University. Open weekdays 14-17 and by appointment. Opening: 5 June, 6 – 8pm. Finissage: 2 July, …
Adam Brown and Cheryl Newman invite you to the opening of their exhibition “Temporalities”, at the Borough Road Gallery, LSBU. The private view is on the 14th September from 18.00, and the show runs till the 22nd September.
Artist and educationalist Cheryl Newman will be exhibiting a series …
The Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, in the School of Arts and Creative Industries at London South Bank University invites applications for a funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with Tate, commencing in October 2023 for a period of up to three years (Full Time). Deadline 18 August. See …
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 …
