Tag: artistic research

The Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics (CIIP) research group is pleased to invite you to a keynote talk by Jonathan W. Y. Gray, on Thursday 12 March 2026, 12:00-13.00 GMT (keynote in the Digital Media Symposium: Research and Practices, Lecture Theatre A, Winchester School of Art, organised by MA Digital Media Practices team and doctoral researchers at WSA)

Public Data Cultures

Jonathan W. Y. Gray’s recent book, Public Data Cultures, nurtures critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. It explores how activists, journalists, artists and others work with public data as well as looking at how critical perspectives can make a difference in practice.

Jonathan W. Y. Gray (@jwyg) is a researcher critically and creatively exploring the roles of digital data, methods and infrastructures in shaping how we know and live together. His work is grounded in feminist science and technology studies, new media studies, critical theory and philosophy. He is Co-Director of the Centre for Digital Culture and Reader in Critical Infrastructure Studies at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London.

He is author of Public Data Cultures (Polity, 2025) and co-editor of Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access (with Martin Eve, MIT Press, 2020) and The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards A Critical Data Practice (with Liliana Bounegru, Amsterdam University Press, 2021). His research has been published in journals such as New Media and Society; Information, Communication & Society; Big Data and Society; and Statistique et Société.

He is co-founder of the Public Data Lab; Research Associate at the Digital Methods Initiative at the University of Amsterdam; and Research Associate at the médialab at Sciences Po founded by Bruno Latour. He has taught with the School for Poetic Computation in NYC. He is part of the advisory group for the Critical Infrastructure Studies Collective and co-editor of the Digital Studies book series on Amsterdam University Press.

He is Hakka-Chinese-Malaysian-Singaporean-American-Scottish, contributes to the work of several anti-racism and East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) community groups and serves on the committee of King’s College London’s Race Equality Network.

Jonathan has been involved in setting up various digital commons initiatives such as The Public Domain Review and Open Data for Tax Justice. He is an advisor to the Fair Tax Foundation, LSE Impact Blog and MediArXiv.

More about his work can be found at jonathangray.org.

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MA Digital Media Practices annual symposium, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton

The annual one day ‘Digital Media: Research and Practice’ Symposium will be held by the MA Digital Media programme and the PGR community at the Winchester School of Art on 12th March 2026. In an era where mobile media, artificial intelligence, 3D digitalisation, immersive platforms and collaborative digital storytelling are continuously transforming modes of cultural interaction. So, in this symposium, we want to bring together academics, postgraduate students and industry practitioners to showcase their research and creative media practice to collectively contemplate how to redefine the bubble of digital media in research and practices. The symposium is expected to run from 10.30 am to 4.30 pm, with lunch and refreshment breaks.

See full schedule and register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-media-symposium-research-and-practice-tickets-1984398561516

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Full Spring Speaker Series: https://criticalinfrastructures.net/events/ciip-spring-speaker-series-2026/

CIIP talks are organised in collaboration with MA Digital Media and MA Fine Art in the Department of Art and Media Technology, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.

The Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics (CIIP) research group is pleased to invite you to a talk by Susan Schuppli on Wednesday 11 March, 11:00-12:00, Winchester School of Art, Westside Lecture Theatre and online. Registration link

Cold Cases

COLD CASES advances a materialist account of climate justice grounded in the evidentiary and relational force of ice. Drawing on legal theory, media and sound studies, investigative aesthetics, and Earth jurisprudence, I argue that ice is not simply a signal of climate change, but an active material witness that records harm and issues political claims and calls to action. Glaciers, permafrost, and polar archives function as thermal records of extraction, colonial occupation, and environmental violence, exposing how liberal, human-centered legal frameworks have enabled dispossession while failing to register environmental and distributed forms of harm. By foregrounding the ways in which ice is relational, COLD CASES challenges settler-colonial regimes of evidence and responsibility, and rethinks climate justice from the standpoint of a rapidly warming cryosphere.

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SUSAN SCHUPPLI is an artist and researcher based in the UK, whose work is situated at the intersections between environmental struggles, climate science, and affected communities with a specific focus on the cryosphere. Investigations span legal analysis and public advocacy as well as theoretical reflection and creative exploration in order to understand how the transformations brought about by global burning are generating new forms of evidence. She is Director of the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths as well as a Fellow and Board Chair of Forensic Architecture. https://susanschuppli.com/

Full Spring Speaker Series: https://criticalinfrastructures.net/events/ciip-spring-speaker-series-2026/

CIIP talks are organised in collaboration with MA Digital Media and MA Fine Art in the Department of Art and Media Technology, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.

March – May 2026

All events are in person and online

Susan Schuppli, Cold Cases – Wednesday 11 March 2026, 11.00-12.00 GMT registration link (Westside Lecture Theatre, Winchester School of Art)

Jonathan W. Y. Gray, Public Data Cultures – Thursday 12 March 2026, 12:00-13.00 GMT registration link (keynote in the Digital Media Symposium: Research and Practices, Lecture Theatre A, Winchester School of Art, organised by MA Digital Media Practices team)

Becky Lyon, The Department of Artecology: Who gets to be an ecologist? – Wednesday 29 April 2026, 11:00-12:00 GMT [registration link will appear here] (Westside Lecture Theatre, Winchester School of Art)

Teresa Dillon – May [date, time, place, registration link will appear here]

CIIP talks are organised in collaboration with MA Digital Media and MA Fine Art in the Department of Art and Media Technology, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.

Register and get the meeting link: https://events.humanitix.com/fraud-euro-vision

Tuesday 25 November 2025, 5pm GMT
Lecture Theatre B. Winchester School of Art

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.

Lithium, copper, uranium, child labor, and the bed of the deep sea—the mining sector is one of the most contested and problematic arenas of consumer complicity today. EURO—VISION: Undergrounding the Critical Mineral begins not with a location or a specific resource, but with a fundamental question: what counts as extraction today? While we might picture drills and quarries, the deeper story unfolds across financial markets, trade policies, legal frameworks, and the metrics used to define what is “critical” in the first place. Taking the EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act as a point of departure, this richly layered volume traces the hidden infrastructures and governing logics that shape how the mining industry moves substances from and across the Earth—and what these minerals, in turn, move with them.

Developed by the artist duo FRAUD (Francisco Gallardo & Audrey Samson) in close collaboration with environmental humanities scholar Michaela Büsse, the book gathers a wide range of voices—artists, scholars, economists, activists, lawyers, and journalists—to reflect on the long genealogies of resource extraction, the valuation paradigms that uphold them, and the terminologies that give them legitimacy. But the story doesn’t stop there. In the context of EURO–VISION, “undergrounding” becomes a tactic: a means of unsettling the structural violence concealed behind seemingly neutral data, and of turning toward the mineral itself—its material presence, its histories, its speculative potential.

Published in K. Verlag’s Processing Process series, EURO—VISION draws on FRAUD’s ongoing, research-led inquiry into critical mineral governance. Combining interviews, visual essays, and commissioned texts, it opens new pathways for thinking about the entanglements between geology, economy, and power. At once analytical and imaginative, the book invites us to see the subterranean anew—not simply as a resource, but as a site of resistance, relation, and possible futures.