Professor Dr. Anna Munster

Biography

Anna Munster is a professor in the School of Art & Design at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). With a PhD awarded in 2002, she focuses on statistical visuality and radical empiricism within the intersecting fields of politics, aesthetics, machine learning, and more-than-human perception. Munster has authored notable books including 'Aesthesia Networks' (MIT Press, 2013) and 'Materializing New Media' (Dartmouth College Press, 2006), and has co-edited collections such as 'Immediation II' (OHP Press, 2019). Her research engages deeply with the aesthetics of media art, exploring multi-channel audiovisual environments and the relational dynamics of perception and movement. She has received numerous grants, such as those from the Australian Research Council for projects on new media art and the geopolitics of automation. Munster's collaborative artistic practice often partners with Michele Barker, producing significant media works that have been exhibited internationally.

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