This inaugural event marks the launch of Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics Research (CIIP) research group at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, and is the first event in the collaboration with Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI, London South Bank University) and Digital Aesthetics Research Group (DARC, Aarhus University).

The launch will host a panel discussion with Dr Stephen Cornford, Professor Jussi Parikka, Dr Alexandra Anikina and Professor Geoff Cox, to introduce the interests of the first year of the collaboration: federated research, critical infrastructures and practice-led approaches.

The event is hybrid and is open to all: please register to receive online link.

You are also welcome to join in person in Lecture Theatre B, East Side, Winchester School of Art, Park Ave, Winchester SO23 8DL. The venue is accessible.

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Critical Infrastructure and Image Politics is a research group dedicated to investigating the politics of contemporary digital and visual cultures at the intersection of media art and critical theory.

We foreground transdisciplinary and practice-based methodologies of artistic and activist-led research in media and technocultures with specific interests in material infrastructures, critical posthumanities, algorithmic visual cultures, feminist and decolonial technocultures, and media ecologies.

We are based in Art and Media Technology Department, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK.