Select Publications
Journal articles
2005, 'Theses on Distributed Aesthetics Or What a Network is Not', Fibreculture Journal, issue 7
,2005, 'Why is Bioart Not Terrorism: Some Critical Nodes in the Networks of Informatic Life', Culture Machine, issue 7
,2002, 'Low Res Bleed: Congealed Affect and Digital Aesthetics', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 2, 3, pp. 77 - 95
,2001, 'Collaboration, Intersection or Hybridisation?: Interfacing Art, Science and New Media', Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly, pp. 1 - 3
,2001, 'Digitality - approximate aesthetics', CTheory
,1999, 'Is there Postlife after Postfeminism? Tropes of Technics and Life in Cyberfeminism', Australian Feminist Studies, 14, pp. 119 - 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08164649993371
,1997, 'Reviving the diagnosis of neurasthenia', Psychological Medicine, pp. 989 - 994
,1987, 'AFTER THE MOVIES - TRANSIENT MOOD AND SOCIAL JUDGMENTS', PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN, 13, pp. 467 - 477, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167287134004
,Conference Papers
2018, 'Moving Data: Artistic tendencies in visualising human and non-human movement', in Bowen JP; Weinel J; Diprose G; Lambert N (eds.), Moving Data: Artistic tendencies in visualising human and non-human movement, BCS Learning & Development Ltd, British Computer Society, London, UK, pp. 180 - 187, presented at Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, British Computer Society, London, UK, 09 July 2018 - 13 July 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.35
,2016, 'Keynote Address:Collectivation in TechnoAnimalities: The Case of the Monkey Selfie’,', University of Konstanz, Germany, presented at Technocollectivities,, University of Konstanz, Germany, 09 June 2016 - 11 June 2016, https://mediaandparticipation.com/techno-collectivities/
,2015, 'Keynote Address, ‘Tuning in to the Signaletic: Experiments with the Imperceptible of Real time’,', Toronto, Canada, presented at Tuning Speculation: III,, Toronto, Canada, 20 November 2015 - 22 September 2016
,2015, 'The Feeling of the Wave (in 5 movements)', in Perception, Movement, Image – always more than human, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada, presented at Media Art Histories: Re-Create 2015, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada, 05 November 2015 - 08 November 2015, http://www.mediaarthistory.org/recreate-2015
,2014, 'Struck and the medicalised body', Powerhouse Museum, presented at Ultimo Science Festival, Powerhouse Museum, 11 September 2014 - 11 September 2014, https://sydneyscience.com.au/
,2013, 'Perception and the nonhuman', in Struck, MOCA Taipei, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, pp. 84 - 87, presented at Post-Humanist Desire, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, 23 November 2013 - 24 November 2013, http://www.mocataipei.org.tw/index.php/2012-01-12-03-36-46/past-exhibitions/173-exhibition-review-2013/974-post-humanist-desire
,2012, 'Keynote Address: Tranmateriality', in Milne E (ed.), presented at CODE 2012, 21 November 2012 - 23 November 2012, http://code2012.wikidot.com/
,2012, 'Keynote Address: Transversal Interference', in Transversal Interference, Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference, Melbourne, pp. 25 - 36, presented at Interference: Second International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections between Art, Science and Culture, Melbourne, 22 June 2012 - 23 June 2012, http://blogs.unsw.edu.au/tiic/files/2013/03/Transimage_conference_proceedings2012.pdf
,2012, 'HokusPokus: the magic and science of perception', in Hokus Pokus, Watermans Gallery, London, presented at Watermans International Festival of Digital Art, Watermans Gallery, London, 21 April 2012 - 21 April 2012, http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/article/watermans-international-festival-of-digital-art/
,2010, 'The mutable face: From Electrocution to microexpression in facial regimes', in The mutable face: From Electrocution to microexpression in facial regimes, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, presented at Imaging Identity: Media, Memory and Visions of Humanity in the Digital Present, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 15 July 2010 - 17 July 2010
,2006, 'Comments on `New Languages: Communicating with the Public`', in New Constellations: Art Science and Society, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, presented at New Constellations: Art Science and Society, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 17 March 2006 - 19 March 2006
,2001, 'Net Affects: Responding to Shock on Internet Time', in Brown H; Lovink G; Merrick H; Rossiter N; Teh D; Willson M (eds.), politics of a Digital Present, Fibreculture Publications, Australia, pp. 9 - 17, presented at Politics od a Digital Present, Melbourne, 06 December 2001 - 08 December 2001
,Conference Presentations
2017, 'DeepAesthetics: why we need artists’ eyes on AI', presented at Visualisation Matters, University of New South Wales, 22 November 2017 - 22 November 2017, http://visualisation.matters.today/2017/
,2016, 'Plenary Address: ‘Collectivation in TechnoAnimalities: The Case of the Monkey Selfie’', presented at Technocollectivities, University of Konstanz, Germany, 09 June 2016 - 11 June 2016, https://mediaandparticipation.com/techno-collectivities/
,2016, '[Convened Seminar Series]', presented at precarity//futurity//aesthetics, CCAP and Visual Anthropology, NIEA, UNSW Art & Design, -
,2015, 'Keynote Address, ‘Tuning in to the Signaletic: Experiments with the Imperceptible of Real time’', presented at Tuning Speculation III, Array Music and York University, Toronto, 20 November 2015 - 22 November 2015, http://www.theocculture.net/t-spec3/
,2015, 'Keynote Address: Nerves of Data', presented at A Billon Gadgets Minds: Thinking Widgets, Data and Workflow, Swedenborg Hall, London, 21 October 2015 - 21 October 2010
,2015, 'Keynote Address: From technology to techniques; from mediation to ‘immediation’. Or, what working with others and across media can teach us about bodies, experience and technics.', presented at UNruly Techniques, Deakin University, Victoria, 14 August 2015 - 14 August 2015, https://blogs.deakin.edu.au/unruly/
,2014, 'The Neuroscientific image', presented at Ultimo Science Festival, Powerhouse Museum, 11 September 2014 - 11 September 2014
,2013, 'Perception and the nonhuman', presented at Posthumanist Desire: International Symposium, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan, 23 November 2013 - 24 November 2013, http://www.mocataipei.org.tw/index.php/2012-01-12-03-46-26/2012-01-12-03-46-53/lectures/1001-2013112324
,2012, ''Transversal Interference'.', presented at Interference: Second International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections between Art, Science and Culture, Melbourne, 22 June 2012 - 24 June 2012, http://blogs.unsw.edu.au/tiic/transdisciplinary-imaging-conference-archive-2012/
,2011, '“‘Hahaha’ – 186,775,728 views. Emerging collectivities of publics, emerging experiences of affect across viral media.”', presented at NIEA Experimental Arts, University of New South Wales, 19 August 2011 - 20 August 2011
,2010, 'The mutable face: capturing expression, identity and ideals through scientific imaging technologies', presented at Imaging Identity, National Portrait Gallery Canberra, ACT, 15 July 2010 - 17 July 2010
,Theses / Dissertations
2015, Affect and the experimental design of domestic products, University of New South Wales, Art & Design, https://www.academia.edu/35605876/affect_and_the_experimental_design_of_domestic_products
,2001, Machinic Disturbants: Genealogies of the Digital
,Creative Written Works
2023, ChatGPT Did Not Take Place, Art +Australia, Baker S, (ed.), University of Melbourne, https://www.artandaustralia.com/58_2/p145/chatgpt-did-not-take-place
,2021, Saana Suites, Hearing the Impossible, Herbert M, (ed.), Accidental Editions, https://accidentalrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hearing-the-impossible
,2009, ‘Data undermining: the work of networked art in an age of imperceptibility’ http://munster.networkedbook.org/data-undermining-the-work-of-networked-art-in-an-age-of-imperceptibility/, Networked: A networked book about networked art, Green JA; Hankwitz M; Mancuso M; Navas E; Thorington H, (eds.), Turbulence.org, http://turbulence.org/networked/guidelines.html
,2007, ‘Emsamblar pensiamento colectivo: Assemblage for Collective Thought’, Aminima Magazine
,2007, Emsamblar pensiamento colectivo: Assemblage for Collective Thought, A Minima, Espacio y Publicaciones
,2005, Outage, Seepage, Blockage: art and cultural praxis in the network, Disobedience, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA
,2001, Symmetry and its Dissimilarities, Intersections of Art and Science, Ivan Dougherty Gallery
,Creative Works (non-textual)
2024, ecologies (Arctic), As Above So Below, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, 23 June 2024 - 13 October 2024, medium: video, sound, generativeAI, at: https://isea2024.isea-international.org/ecologies-arctic/
,2021, ImageMesh, ImageMesh, 01 July 2021 - 01 July 2025, medium: online interface, at: https://imagemesh.ai/
,2019, hold, all the time in the world, Artspace, Sydney and The Big Anxiety Festival, 03 October 2019 - 27 October 2019, medium: multichannel sound and video, at: https://www.artspace.org.au/program/ideas-platform/2019/michele-barker-plus-anna-munster-all-the-time-in-the-world/
,2017, pull, Experimenta Make Sense, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 05 October 2017 - 11 November 2017, medium: video installation, at: http://experimenta.org/makesense/
,2015, evasion (duet), Motion: the body & movement in contemporary art practice, Bega Valley Regional Gallery, 17 July 2015 - 22 August 2015, at: http://www.begavalley.nsw.gov.au/cp_themes/default/page.asp?p=DOC-HDP-51-45-16
,2014, evasion, évasion, UTS Gallery, University of Technology, Broadway, Sydney Australia, 28 October 2014 - 28 November 2014, medium: Multichannel audiovisual responsive installation, at: http://art.uts.edu.au/index.php/exhibitions/evasion/
,2014, Struck II, Ultimo Science Festival, Powerhouse Museum, 11 September 2014 - 11 September 2014
,2013, Struck, Posthumanist Desire: Sexuality and Digitality in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, 23 November 2013 - 12 January 2014, medium: 3 channel video installation, at: http://www.mocataipei.org.tw/index.php/2012-01-12-03-36-46/past-exhibitions/173-exhibition-review-2013/974-post-humanist-desire
,2012, After Melies, Born in 1987, The Photographers' Gallery, London UK, 19 May 2012 - 27 August 2012, medium: Digital Video, at: http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/the-wall-2
,2012, HokusPokus, International Festival of Digital Art, Watermans Gallery; London, UK, 14 April 2012 - 20 May 2012
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