My research is broadly aligned with the field of computational aesthetics. I am interested in how computational processes that unfold outside the phenomenal field of human experience – whether as a result of their temporality or scale – are aestheticized, conceptualized, and made available for technical and cultural critique. This has regularly involved researching the histories, practices, and politics that comprise contemporary media art, a field defined by its critical preoccupation with emerging media technologies. Critical engagement with photographic technologies and practices, a longstanding research interest of mine, has also provided a grounded outlet for my current engagement with computational aesthetics.
I have provided a list of research projects - solo and collaborative, past and ongoing - through which I have engaged with this line of questioning in one way or another:
Machine Vision in Context: Politics and Practices of Computational Seeing (2019 - )
Genealogies of the Techno-Industrial Residency (2017 - )
Media Art Histories and Criticism
Contingent Systems: On Art and/as Algorithmic Critique (2019 - 2023)