Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics
The Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics (CIIP) research group warmly invites you to a conversation between Audrey Samson (of the artist duo FRAUD), Stephen Cornford, and Yaiza Hernandez Velazquez. The event marks the launch of EURO—VISION: Undergrounding the Critical Mineral, published in October 2025 by K. Verlag.
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October 11 2025 | 11:30 GMT | Online via MS Teams
Angela YT Chan is an independent researcher, data engineer and artist specialising in climate change.
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A talk by Sasha Anikina and Kwame Phillips at IHG, University of Glasgow. They will share thoughts some of CIIP’s recent work on haunted/haunting, and the recently announced Culture Machine open call on the University as Infrastructure.
critical infrastructuresUniversities have become increasingly dependent on a proliferation of outsourced services, database providers and information management systems. Initiated by CIIP, this special issue aims to take stock of the challenges and possibilities here for University as Infrastructure.
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We are recruiting an Artist in Residence to undertake artistic research with a focus on Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) technology, in the context of the recently awarded UKRI grant ‘SOUNDSCALE: Sensing On Urban Noise: Distributed Sensing for Collaborative and Sustainable Cityscapes and Living Environments’, http://soundscale.ac.uk.
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Tuesday 18th March | 11:00 GMT | Lecture Theatre B, Winchester School of Art [in-person]
Harun Morrison is an artist and writer based in London and an associate artist with Greenpeace UK on the project Bad Taste. His work is currently on show with Devonshire Collective in the solo exhibition Conjunction in Eastbourne.
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Tuesday 11th March | 10:00 GMT | Lecture Theatre B, Winchester School of Art and online
Visual artist LUCY HELTON born in London and returning after 18 years in New York, received her master’s degree in fine art photography from HarFord Art School, CT, in 2014. She’s currently a funded PhD practice-led researcher at the Slade School of Fine Art focusing on human environmental impact in outer space.
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This year marked the Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics research group’s first collaboration with the transmediale festival in Berlin, part of an extended collaboration between transmediale and Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton), which is planned to continue with future iterations of the festival.
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