Our visiting PhD researcher at CSNI, Laura Hopes, is currently exhibiting Speedwell, a commissioned public artwork, as part of Mayflower 400. Laura is part of a collective called Still/Moving, along with Martin Hampton and Léonie Hampton. For more details on the project and extensive documentation, see https://stillmoving.org/projects/speedwell.…
Associate Researcher at CSNI, Tim Fransen, presented at the first Association for Learning Technology (ALT) Summer Summit – ‘Learning Technology in a time of crisis, care and complexity‘ in August 2020. The event saw 50 sessions being delivered over 2 days with over 280 attendees from 24 countries. …
The latest issue of A Peer-Reviewed Journal About Research Networks is out now. Published by Aarhus University in partnership with transmediale, and edited by Christian Ulrik Andersen and Geoff Cox, contributions are from Sudipto Basu, Wenhao Bi, Nicola Bozzi, Iuliia Glushneva, Rebecca Holt, Özgün Eylül İşcen, Linda Kronman, Wing Ki …
Three takeaways from the Serpentine’s Future Art Ecosystems Report, published in an article for artnet.news. CSNI/Serpentine researcher Victoria Ivanova and the Serpentine’s chief technology officer Ben Vickers consider the future of art and technology from an infrastructural perspective.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, arts organizations have …
CSNI Meeting 1st July 15.00 – 17.00 (UK Time): The Politics of the Networked Image in Collaborative Research
The next CSNI meeting will take place on Wednesday the 1st of July, and will be launching a new research initiative between CSNI and Unthinking Photography (The Photographers’ Gallery), titled The …
The next CSNI research event includes a talk by Jussi Parikka and a discussion of a co-written article with Abelardo Gil-Fournier. Join us online at 15.00 UK time, 3rd June 2020. This is a closed event for CSNI researchers but if you’d like to join us please email us (mail …
Established in 1999, the Rhizome ArtBase is an international and diverse archive with over 2200 born-digital artworks, primarily works of net art. With its expansion in size and scope as well as complexity over the past 20 years, the commitment to preservation of the works in the ArtBase has become …
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.
London South Bank University and The Photographers’ Gallery are pleased to invite applications for a full-time, funded PhD commencing in April 2020 or ASAP. This is an exciting opportunity to undertake a collaborative doctoral research project with the Digital Programme of TPG and The Centre for the Study of the Networked Image …
Talk by Jacob Lund @Borough Road Gallery, 17.00, 4th March 2020. All welcome.
Assuming that images are as foundational as language in the construction of the world – and now perhaps even more so – the talk will reflect on some of the ways in which digitalization effects changes in …
This publication is a raw unedited record of mail list exchanges in advance of a research workshop at the Canadian Embassy in Berlin (29-30 Jan 2020) and public presentations at Volksbühne (31 Jan 2020), as part of transmediale 2020 End to End which aimed to deal with the pervasiveness of …
Talk by Helen Pritchard @Borough Road Gallery, 17.00, 5th February 2020. All welcome.
The contemporary infrastructural complex of mining and measuring undergrounds depends on software tools for geological data handling, interpretation, and 3D-visualisation. Such tools power techno-colonial subsurface exploration with computational techniques and paradigms. In this talk I will present …
Talk by Laura Hopes @Borough Road Gallery, 17.00, 8th January 2020. All welcome.
In this talk I explore the power dynamics inherent within the naming of something; the conferring of ownership, of defining accessibility to or relationships with a subject. Central to this examination is the theoretical and political sleight …
Talk by Wing-Ki Lee @Borough Road Gallery, 17.00, 4th December 2019. All welcome.
Background reading: Wing-Ki Lee, “Derivative Work and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement: Three Perspectives”, in Visualizing the Street: New Practices of Documenting, Navigating and Imagining the City, edited by Pedram Dibazar and Judith Naeff, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University …
CSNI researcher Nicolas Malevé has published “An Introduction to Image Datasets” for The Photographer’s Gallery’s Unthinking Photography platform. It presents some key concepts and questions that make the computer vision dataset an object of concern for photographic practitioners and institutions.
“The scale of contemporary datasets, the speed at …
Geoff Cox and Winnie Soon co-organised the workshop “Making hybrid publications using Git and web technologies” with Stéphanie Vilayphiou and Gijs de Heij from OSP (Open Source Publishing, Brussels), at Aarhus University, 28-29 October. This special mode of publishing is based on Git as a version-control system, managing …
CSNI’s Co-Director Dr Annet Dekker and PhD Researcher Lozana Rossenova (image above) attended the 16th edition of the International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES, for short), which took place 16–20th September, 2019, at the Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam.
The 16th edition of the International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES, …
CSNI’s Nicolas Malevé participated in ImageNet Birthday Party with guest of honour Dr. Fei-Fei Li (Stanford University), and chaired by Prof Alan Blackwell (University of Cambridge). ImageNet has become one of the most influential visual datasets in the fields of Deep Learning and AI. More than 14 million photographs were …
How do we think about networks under post-digital conditions? What does this imply for research?
The next transmediale festival, End to End (E2E), aims to deal with the pervasiveness of networks and their limits. It refers to Robert Filliou’s The Eternal Network (1983), pointing to the interconnectedness of everyday-life actions across …