In 2010, I founded the Image Research Network, with an annual International Conference on the Image and its associated International Journal of the Image. 2017 will be the eight year of the conference and the eight volume of the journal. Since 2010, the annual conference has been held in partnership with the University of California, Los Angeles (2010), The San Sebastian Film Festival, Spain (2011), The Higher School of Humanities and Journalism, Poznań, Poland (2012), The University Center, Chicago (2o12), The Free University, Berlin, Germany (2014), The University of California, Berkeley (2015), The Liverpool John Moores University, the Institute for Cultural Capital and the Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK. In 2017 the conference will be held in association with the Venice International University and the Venice Biennale. The conference includes an innovative range of session formats, including pop-up exhibitions. I have negotiated partnerships, designed the program, and attended and chaired the conference as its host every year. Across the 28 issues of the associated journal to the end of 2016, we have published 278 peer reviewed articles. The result has been the development of a remarkable body of work, uncovering a rich vein of interdisciplinary thinking about image culture, digital imaging and visualization.