Professor Anna Munster

Professor
Anna Munster has been at UNSW Art and Design since 2001 on a full-time tenured basis. She is an active researcher with three sole published books:  DeepAesthetics: On Computational Experience in a Time of Machine Learning (Duke, 2025) An Aesthesia of Networks (MIT Press, 2013), and  Materializing New Media  (Dartmouth College Press 2006). She also edited Immediation I and II ( 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, 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, all the time in the world, 2019 for Ideas Platform, Artspace, Sydney. In 2017, they were commissioned for a multichannel audiovisual environment, pull, for Experimenta Media Arts: Make Sense, 2017–2020. They have been awarded New Work Grants, in 2012 and 2010 from the Australia Council for the Arts to realise their work. Other  projects include: évasion (2014), HokusPokus (2011). Duchenne’s smile (2-channel DV installation, 2009), Struck (3-channel DV installation, 2007).

Anna has been lead CI on  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. She was a partner in a large international project, Immediations, hosted by Concordia University, Montreal and funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Canada. 

She is the co-editor of The Encyclopaedia of New Media Art volume 3 (Bloomsbury, 2025-2026). She was a founding member of the online peer-reviewed journal The Fibreculture Journal and  co-edited two special issues of the journal on Distributed Aesthetics and Web 2.0. She is a member of the editorial advisory boards of Inflexions, Convergence, Scan and Screen Bodies, and Computational Culture.