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.
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 …
CSNI/LSBU is looking for an Associate Professor in Expanded Photographic Practices and Curating to take a leading role in the development and assessment of the School’s research activities, together with teaching photography at BA and MA levels. The person appointed will manage The Centre for the Study of the Networked …
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 …
Remedios Zafra, CSNI external researcher associate, has published the article The Precarious Individual: Cultural Workers in the Digital Era in CCCB Lab (Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona).
For some time now vocation and enthusiasm have been exploited to justify the drift towards labour precarity. This tendency is on …
Andrew Dewdney has contributed a paper Museums, scholarly enterprise and global assemblages: a response to ‘Artifacts and allegiances: how museums put the nation and the world on display’ in Identities Volume 24, Issue 1.
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CSNI researchers Annet Dekker and Katrina Sluis will be joining Marco de Mutiis of FotoMuseum Winterthur on Tuesday 13th February, 7pm to discuss “the new artefacts of the image” as part of Foto Colectania’s digital platform Done:
Our relationship with images is transforming at high speed due to the proliferation …
CSNI Director Andrew Dewdney has contributed a chapter, “Art Museum Knowledge and the Crisis of Representation” to a new volume, Representing Art Education: On the Representation of Pedagogical work in the Art Field, edited by Carmen Mörsch, Sigrid Schade & Sophie Vögele.…
CSNI Researchers Annet Dekker (21st Feb) and Katrina Sluis (24th May) will be participating in “Curating Machines”, a series of events organised by Olga Goriunova, Lilly Markaki and Chris Townsend (Dept. of Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London): https://www.facebook.com/
CSNI Researcher Katrina Sluis was recently interviewed for the BBC Radio 4 Programme ‘PowerPointless’, a documentary on the culture and aesthetics of Microsoft PowerPoint. She discussed the production of the 2016 Media Wall project PowerPoint Polemics at The Photographers’ Gallery and the contribution of artists including Clunie Reid.
Listen …
Gabriel Menotti and Bruno Zorzal interview Katrina Sluis for the Brazilian Photography publication ZUM: Revista de Fotografia.
Read the interview (in Portuguese), here:
https://revistazum.com.br/noticias/entrevista-katrina-sluis/…
Auction action – commission an artwork, listed on eBay as ART, LIMITED EDITION, PRINT | Auction action – commission an artwork #exstrange, were transformative actions that occurred within the context of the networked performance Transformations: Actions to Matter / Matter to Actions by Garrett Lynch.
Transformative actions within Transformations …
9 Jun 2017, 18.30
@ The Photographers’ Gallery
with Özge Ersoy, Nour A. Munawar, Sarah Nankivell, Christina Varvia
curated by Annet Dekker
Trafficking of cultural heritage is nothing new. It ranges from the looting of archaeological sites, theft from cultural heritage institutions and private collections, and the displacement of …
