IMAGING FUTURES LAB

Research focussing on promoting deeper learning and understanding into how systems of computational image-making and machine learning are changing the way we live, work and socialise.

The Imaging Futures Lab explores the creative and discursive potential of emerging systems of computational image-making and their application to expanded photographic practices. The lab includes academics, artists, photographers and industry-based researchers motivated by questions of ethics, politics and representation.

We are particularly focused on the ways in which photographic devices and processes are informing, and being informed by, emergent imaging technologies. The lab conducts multi-disciplinary research into the creative application of contemporary lens-based practices, critical theories and the implications of imaging technologies.

The Lab is led by Dr Alison Bennett and Associate Professor Shane Hulbert.

Image: Nirma Madhoo, OBSIDIAN XR, 2021