1st Edition

The Networked Image in Post-Digital Culture

Edited By Andrew Dewdney, Katrina Sluis Copyright 2023
248 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This collection examines how the networked image establishes new social practices for the user and presents new challenges for cultural practitioners engaged in making, curating, teaching, exhibiting, archiving and preserving born-digital objects. The mode of vision and imaging, established through photography over the previous two centuries, has and continues to be radically reconfigured by a... Read more

Introduction

Andrew Dewdney and Katrina Sluis

Part One: The condition of the networked image

1. The politics of the networked image: representation and reproduction

Andrew Dewdney

2. The networked image after Web 2.0: Flickr and the ‘real-world’ photography of the dataset

Katrina Sluis

3. Post-capitalist photography

Ben Burbridge

Part Two: Computation, software, learning

4. The computer vision lab: the epistemic configuration of machine vision

Nicolas Malevé

5. Ways of machine seeing as a problem of invisual literacy

Geoff Cox

6, Soft subjects: hybrid labour in media software

Alan Warburton

Part Three: Curating the networked image

7. The paradoxes of curating the networked image: aesthetic currents, flows and flaws

Gaia Tedone

8. Internet liveness and the art museum

Ioanna Zouli

9. Screenshot Situations: imaginary realities of networked images

Magda Tyżlik-Carver

Part Four: Digitisation and the reconfiguration of the archive

10. Networks of care

Annet Dekker

11. Beyond the screenshot: interface design and data protocols in the net art archive

Lozana Rossenova

Biography

Andrew Dewdney is Co-director and Co-founder of the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, and Professor of Educational Media at London South Bank University. He has written and lectured widely on new media and museology. His most recent book Forget Photography was published in 2021.

Katrina Sluis is Associate Professor and Head of Photography & Media Arts at the School of Art & Design, Australian National University. She is a founding Co-director of the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image and was previously Senior Curator (Digital Programmes) at The Photographers’ Gallery, London.