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Luci Eldridge is a UK-based artist and writer, currently serving as a Lecturer in Fine Art at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. As co-director of the Robot Futures research group, she explores the practices and implications of robotic vision and sensing. Her research focuses on the scientific visioning of landscapes as seen through satellites, cameras, and spacecraft rovers. Eldridge's work integrates traditional printmaking techniques with lens-based media, collage, and digital technologies, emphasizing the role of technological representation in shaping humanity's relationship with Earth and other planets. Currently, her artistic practice involves working with satellite radar images from the Sentinel 1A satellite and examining how imaging devices alter and fragment perceptions of landscapes across micro and macro scales. Eldridge has co-edited the book 'Robotic Vision & Virtual Interfacings: Seeing, Sensing, Shaping,' which investigates the impact of robotic vision on world perception from critical and theoretical perspectives. She is also in the process of writing her own book titled 'Encounters with Mars: Virtual Landscape Rover Images,' which aims to contextualize representational practices within a critical theoretical framework, particularly focusing on remote exploration of Mars.