Professor Anna Munster
PhD, 91色情片, 2002
BA, Class 1 Hons (University Medal) University of Sydney, 1984
Professor
Anna Munster has been at 91色情片 Art and Design since 2001 on a full-time tenured basis. She is an active researcher with three sole published books:听听DeepAesthetics: On Computational Experience in a Time of Machine Learning听(Duke, 2025)听An Aesthesia of Networks (MIT Press, 2013), and 听Materializing New Media听听(Dartmouth College Press 2006). She also edited and ( OHP Press 2019). Her current research interests are: statistical visuality and radical empiricism, the politics and aesthetics of machine learning, more-than-human perception, new pragmatist approaches to media and art,听new media art environments and ecologies; time, movement and sonicity.
Anna regularly collaborates artistically with Michele Barker. Barker and Munster have been working in multi-channel audiovisual environments exploring the relations between perception, movement and media.Their most recent work was the solo show,听听2019 for听Ideas Platform, Artspace, Sydney. In 2017, they were commissioned for a听multichannel audiovisual environment, pull, for , 2017鈥�2020. They have been awarded New Work Grants, in 2012 and 2010 from the Australia Council for the Arts to realise their work. Other听 projects include:听听(2014),听(2011). Duchenne鈥檚 smile (2-channel DV installation, 2009), Struck (3-channel DV installation, 2007).
Anna has been lead CI on听 three ARC Discovery Projects, has participated on Linkage Projects and has been a CI for Discovery Projects with partner institutions such as Western Sydney University.听She was a partner in a large international project,听,听hosted by Concordia University, Montreal and funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Canada.听
She is the co-editor of The Encyclopaedia of New Media Art听volume 3 (Bloomsbury, 2025-2026). She was a founding member of the online peer-reviewed journal and听 co-edited two special issues of the journal on and . She is a member of the editorial advisory boards of Inflexions,听Convergence,听Scan and Screen Bodies, and Computational Culture.
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- Teaching and Supervision
Australian Research Council Discovery Project, 鈥楾he Geopolitics of Automation鈥�, Australian Research Council Discovery Project). Chief Investigators: Prof. Ned Rossiter, Prof. Brett Neilson, Prof. Anna Munster, Dr Liam Magee. ($464k)
Australian Research Council Discovery Project, 鈥楻e-Imaging the Empirical: Statistical Visualisation in Art and Science鈥�, 2017鈥�2020. Lead CI. ($177k)
Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Canada, 2013鈥�2019, co-applicant, Australian leader,听Immediations Partnership Grant (Concordia University), Grant leader: Prof. E. Manning, 2013鈥�2019 ($CA2.9million
Australian Research Council Linkage Project, 鈥楻econsidering Australian Media Art History in an International Context鈥�, 2011鈥�2015, CI听 ($232,000)
Australian Research Council Discovery Project, team leader and lead C1, 鈥楧ynamic Media: innovative social and artistic developments in new media in Australia, Britain, Canada and Scandinavia since 1990鈥�, 2007鈥�2010
Australian Research Council Discovery Project, 鈥楾he body-computer relation in new media art from 1984 to the present鈥�, Lead CI, 2003-2005 ($90,000)
The 2026 Anne Friedberg Award for Innovative Scholarship for听DeepAesthetics awarded by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, America
Honourable Mention 2026 for the Ludwig Fleck Outstanding Book award for听DeepAesthetics听awarded by 4S, Society for Science and Technology Studies.
ARC, 91色情片 Student Council Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision, 2024, 2017
Dean鈥檚 Award, Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision, 2015, Faculty of Art and Design, University of New South Wales, Australia
鈥楬ighly commended鈥� for Materializing New Media in the Media Art Research award, Prix Ars Electronica Linz, Austria, 2008
Winner (with M. Barker) of National Digital Art Awards, 鈥淭he Harries鈥�, dynamic category, 2006. Acquisitive prize听
Winner of University Press of New England Publishing Award 鈥楤est manuscript submitted for Interface Series鈥�, 2005.听
My Research Supervision
- Monica Monin (PhD, practice-based) Coding Materialities (commenced 2014)
- Alia Parker (Scientia PhD, practice-based)听 Critical Bio-Textiles: Reconceptualising human-centred design through collaboration with mycellium (commenced 2020)
- Troy Rainbow, Schizophrenia and XR Technological representations (commenced 2019)
- Natasha Dubler, 'Sound, Resonance and Affect' (commenced 2021)
- Eva Nolan, 'Sight and Sightings: Affective Drawing' (commenced 2021)