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 …
Applications are invited for a new Artist in Residence programme at London South Bank University (LSBU). We are seeking to appoint a dynamic and enthusiastic person who is seeking time and access to resources to develop their practice and would benefit demonstrably from doing this within the practice, research and …
Artist and CSNI researcher Nicolas Malevé has written a computer script that cycles through ImageNet — a vast dataset of 14,197,122 photographs — at a speed of 90 milliseconds per image. To exhibit all images, this runs over a two month period (until 01 Sep 2019) as a live stream…
As outlined in a previous post on this blog, one of the core themes of the 2019 CSNI Summer School was collaborative research. The afternoon presentations and discussions included a few current research projects at CSNI, carried out in collaboration with arts organisations, including Rhizome, Serpentine Galleries, and …
Daniel Alexander completed a film, tilted Scales of Resistance, which was the output of two years practice based research with Scientists at the University of Nottingham and a 3D visualisation practice called Scan Lab Projects. The scientists have developed medical devices that combat Antibiotic Resistance, and the film developed …
Art and the Internet: The Network as a Research Area and Theme in New Visual Artistic Practices Research and Development Project, funded by Agencia Estatal de Investigación. Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness. Government of Spain). Principal investigator (PI): Juan Martín Prada. Universidad de Cádiz (Spain).
Research members: Andrew Dewdney. …
The third annual CSNI Summer School took place at the Jerwood Space, London on 13 June with twenty-six research affiliated delegates in attendance. The conference brought together researchers and practitioners examining the rapidly changing and expanding nature of the networked image and how collaborative partnerships in the arts are an …
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 …
Nicolas Malevé’s presentation from the Image/Net/Works conference at Fotomuseum Winterthaur, and organised by Lucerne University of Applied Arts and Sciences in collaboration with Fotomuseum Winterthur, is now available HERE.
For more on the conference, https://www.fotomuseum.ch/en/explore/situations/155519.…