CSNI fosters transdisciplinary research with a wide public reach, and has pioneered collaborative and embedded research with the cultural sector.
CSNI is currently involved with the following funded projects:
Ways of [Machine] Seeing: Towards a new visual literacy in AI (Sept 2024 – July 2025) is supported by Responsible AI (RAi UK) Skills Programme, and developed in collaboration with UCL Institute of Education, Justice Matrix and The Photographers’ Gallery (2024-25). We aim to produce responsible AI learning resources that offer best practice for teacher training and curriculum development, introducing the necessary skills to address AI literacy in classroom settings. The project team builds upon previous research through a public engagement grant from The Alan Turing Institute entitled “Learning Experiments in Computer Vision and Visual Literacy” (2022-23).
Video documentation produced as part of the Teachers’ Resource Launch at The Photographers’ Gallery, with the Unmasking Facial Recognition workshop by Shinji Toya, June 2015.
ServPub (April 2023 ->) is a collaborative research project to explore alternative publishing infrastructures, with the participation of CSNI, UCL Slade School of Art, SHAPE at Aarhus University, and grassroot art-tech collectives Systerserver, In-Grid and Creative Crowds. We are currently working on an experimental book project with Minor Compositions as part of Open Book Futures. More info here.
Ways of [Machine] Seeing is an ongoing CSNI project (since 2016), first initiated at University of Cambridge, with the participation of The Photographers’ Gallery, UCL Institute of Education and BBC, amongst others. See above.
Previous projects include:
Documenting Digital Art: Re-thinking Histories and Practices of Documentation in the Museum and Beyond (2019-22) is a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and led by Professor Gabriella Giannachi, University of Exeter, with Dr Francesca Franco from the University of Exeter, Dr Annet Dekker and Katrina Sluis from CSNI//The Photographers’ Gallery, and Gaby Wijers, LIMA, Amsterdam.
Curating Photography in the Networked Image Economy (2018-2022) is a project funded by Swiss National Science Foundation, led by Dr Wolfgang Brückle, Lucerne University of Applied Arts and Sciences, in collaboration with Fotomuseum Winterthur, FotoColectania and The Photographers’ Gallery. It includes the involvement of Katrina Sluis, Nicolas Malevé, Gaia Tedone and Marco de Mutiis.
The Contemporary Condition: The Representation and Experience of Contemporaneity in and through Contemporary Arts Practice (2016-2021), project funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research at Aarhus University, and led by Jacob Lund and Geoff Cox.
Art and the Internet: The Network as a Research Area and Theme in New Visual Artistic Practices, project funded by Agencia Estatal de Investigación (Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness, Government of Spain), led by Juan Martín Prada, Universidad de Cádiz. Research members include Andrew Dewdney, CSNI/LSBU, Annet Dekker, CSNI/University of Amsterdam.
Cultural Value and the Digital: Practice, Policy and Theory (2014), Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project with Royal College of Art and Tate Modern.
Tate Encounters: Britishness and Visual Cultures (2007-10), Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project with Wimbledon College of Arts and Tate Britain.