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Professor Anna Munster

Professor Anna Munster

Professor

PhD, UNSW, 2002

BA, Class 1 Hons (University Medal) University of Sydney, 1984

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Art & Design


Professor
Anna Munster has been at UNSW Art and Design since 2001 on a full-time tenured basis. She is an active researcher with two sole published books: An Aesthesia of Networks (MIT Press, 2013), and Materializing New Media(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,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,2019 forIdeas Platform, Artspace, Sydney. In 2017, they were commissioned for amultichannel audiovisual environment, pull, for , 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:(2014),(2011). Duchenne’s smile (2-channel DV installation, 2009), Struck (3-channel DV installation, 2007).

Anna is the lead CI and partnered with Adrian Mackenzie (Australian National University) on a 3-year ARC Discovery Project: ''. She is also currently a CI on the ARCDP 'The Geopolitics of Automation'. led by Ned Rossiter out of Western Sydney University. She is also a CI on the ARC Discovery Project "The Geopolitics of Automation" (2020–23) with Professor Ned Rossiter, Western Sydney University.

She was a partner in a large international project,,hosted by Concordia University, Montreal and funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Canada. She has held two ARC Discovery research grants in new media and art: 'The Body-Machine Interface in New Media Art from 1984 to the Present, 2003–5' and 'Dynamic Media: Innovative social and artistic uses of dynamic media in Australia, Britain, Canada and Scandinavia since 1990'.She was also an investigator on an ARC Linkage project, 'Australian Media Arts Database', which resulted in the national media arts database

She is a founding member of the online peer-reviewed journal and has co-edited two special issues on and . and on the editorial advisory board ofInflexions,Convergence,Scan and Screen Bodies, and Computational Culture.
Phone
+61 2 8936 0741
E-mail
A.Munster@unsw.edu.au
Location
UNSW Art and Design
  • Books | 2016
    Murphie A; Massumi B; Munster A; Bertelsen L; Manning E; Bordeleau E; Rousell C; Brunner C; Farrell C; Topp M; Jeffries E; Fritsch E; Fritsch J; Kellokumpu S; Plumb L; Scliar B; Gabriels J; Kolozsvari C; Morales M; Sempert M; Patterson T; Roumagnac V; Mason J; Trento F; Fogliano A; Kuipers H; Goodman A; Lee M, 2016, The Go-To How-To Guide to Anarchiving, Murphie AK, (ed.), The Senselab, ѴDzԳٰé,
    Books | 2013
    Munster AM, 2013, An Aesthesia of Networks. Conjunctive Experience in Art and Technology, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachussets,
    Books | 2011
    Munster AM, 2011, Nerves of Perception, Munster AM, (ed.), Open Humanities Press,
    Books | 2006
    Munster AM, 2006, Materializing New Media: Embodiment in Information Aesthetics, University Press of New England, Hanover and London
  • Book Chapters | 2023
    Munster A; Rossiter N, 2023, 'Performing the Automated Image', in Choreomata: Performance and Performativity after AI, pp. 47 - 73,
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Munster A; Barker M, 2022, 'Moving Data: Visualizing Human and Nonhuman Movement Artistically', in Gwilt I (ed.), Making Data Materializing Digital Information, Bloomsbury Publishing,
    Book Chapters | 2021
    Munster A; Mackenzie A, 2021, 'Oscilloscopes, slide-rules, and nematodes Toward heterogenetic perception in/of AI', in Lushetich N; Campbell I (ed.), Distributed Perception Resonances and Axiologies, Taylor and Francis, UK, pp. 64 - 81,
    Book Chapters | 2021
    Munster A, 2021, '‘Disfluent Interfaces. Affective Conversations: Differencing Humans and Machines in AI’', in Stavning Thomsen BM; Kofoed J; Fritsch J (ed.), Affects, Interfaces, Events, Imbricate Press, Vancouver, pp. 39 - 58,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Munster A, 2019, 'Signaletic Immediations: Sensing New Media as Relational Events and Ecologies', in Manning E; Munster A; Stavning Thomsen BM (ed.), Immediation 1, Open Humanities Press, pp. 228 - 239,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Munster AM, 2018, 'Conjunctive and Disjunctive Networks: Affects, Technics, and Arts in the Experience of Relation', in Sayers J (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities, Routledge, New York and London, pp. 274 - 282,
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Munster AM, 2017, 'Distended Nervous System: Networked Media and Its Neurological Turns', in Neidich W (ed.), The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism: Part Three, Archive Books, Berlin, Germany, pp. 187 - 213,
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Munster AM; Barker M, 2016, 'The mutable face', in Hinkson M (ed.), Imaging Identity: Media, memory and portraiture in the digital age, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 101 - 116,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Munster A, 2014, 'Biotechnical art and the ethico-aesthetic paradigm', in Context Providers: Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts, pp. 243 - 258
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Munster AM, 2014, 'Entanglements of Brain, Technics and Experience', in Skinner S (ed.), Torque#1, Link Publications, Link Arts Center, Brescia Italy, pp. 25 - 31,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Munster AM, 2014, 'Materiality', in Ryan M-L; Emerson L; Robertson B (ed.), The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA, pp. 327 - 330,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Munster AM, 2014, '“Text and Walk without Fear”: Apps and the Experience of Transparency', in Miller PD; Matviyenko S (ed.), The Imaginary App, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 111 - 124,
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Munster AM, 2012, 'Digital Embodiment/Digital Materiality', in Wiedemann C; Zehle S (ed.), Depletion Design: A Glossary of Network Ecologies, INC Publications, Amsterdam, pp. 35 - 40
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Munster AM, 2010, 'Biotechnical Art and the Ethico-Aesthetic paradigm', in Lovejoy M; Paul C; Vesna V (ed.), Context Providers Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts, Intellect Ltd, Chicago, pp. 245 - 259
    Book Chapters | 2008
    Munster AM, 2008, 'Bioaesthetics as Bioethics', in Pandolowski M (ed.), Art in the Biotech Era, Experimental Art Foundation Inc., Adelaide, pp. 14 - 21
    Book Chapters | 2008
    Munster AM, 2008, 'Outage, Seepage, Blockage: Art and Cultural Practice in the Network', in Butt D; Bywater J; Paul N (ed.), Place: Local Knowledge and New Media Practice, Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge, pp. 78 - 92
    Book Chapters | 2008
    Munster AM, 2008, 'Welcome to Google Earth', in Kroker A; Kroker M (ed.), Critical Digital Studies, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, pp. 397 - 416
    Book Chapters | 2008
    Munster AM, 2008, '‘A vizuális információ tömörítése és felerősítése a Flash esztétikában’ (Compression and the intensification of information in Flash Aesthetics)', in Gerencsér P (ed.), Új, média, művészet. (New, media, art), Universitas Szeged Kiadó, Szeged, Hungary, pp. 159 - 176
    Book Chapters | 2006
    Munster AM, 2006, 'Media Art Zones - But Where`s The Media?', in Keenan and Bullock (ed.), Zones of Contact: A Critical Reader, Artspace, Sydney, pp. 55 - 60
    Book Chapters | 2004
    Munster AM, 2004, 'Digitality: Approximate Aesthetics', in Kroker A; Kroker M (ed.), Life In The Wires: The CTheory Reader, NWP / CTheory Books, Victoria, Canada, pp. 415 - 429
    Book Chapters | 2002
    Munster AM, 2002, 'Returns of The Deminishing Body', in Angerer ML; Peters K; Soufoulis Z (ed.), Future Bodies: Visualising the Body in Science and Fiction, Springer Verlag, Vienna, New York, pp. 143 - 161
    Book Chapters | 2001
    Munster AM, 2001, 'New Media as Old Media: Strategies of Location and Dislocation', in Shaw J; Favero DD (ed.), (dis)LOCATIONS, ZKM Publications, Karlsruhe, Germany, pp. 22 - 31
    Book Chapters | 2001
    Munster AM, 2001, '‘Net Affects: Responding to Shock on Internet Time’', in Brown H; Merrik H; Rossiter N; Teh D; Wilson M (ed.), Politics of a Digital Present: An Inventory of Australian Net Culture, Criticism and Theory, Melbourne, pp. 9 - 17
  • Edited Books | 2019
    Munster A; Manning E; Stavning Thomsen BM, (eds.), 2019, Immediation I, Open Humanities Press, Online,
    Edited Books | 2019
    Munster A; Manning E; Stavning Thomsen BM, (eds.), 2019, Immediation II, Open Humanities Press, online,
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Horn Z; Magee L; Munster A, 2024, 'Lost in the logistical funhouse: speculative design as synthetic media enterprise', AI and Society,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Munster A; Magee L; Horn Z, 2023, 'Lost in the Logistical Funhouse: Speculative Design as Synthetic Media Enterprise', arXiv.org,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Richardson M; Munster A, 2023, 'Pluralising the Planetary: The Radical Incompleteness of Machinic Envisioning', Media+Environment, 5,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Tan K; Munster A; Mackenzie A, 2021, 'Images of the arXiv: Reconfiguring large scientific image datasets', Journal of Cultural Analytics, 6, pp. 117 - 157,
    Journal articles | 2019
    MacKenzie A; Munster A, 2019, 'Platform Seeing: Image Ensembles and Their Invisualities', Theory, Culture and Society, 36, pp. 3 - 22,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Arguel A; Lockyer L; Lipp OV; Lodge JM; Kennedy G, 2017, 'Inside Out: Detecting Learners' Confusion to Improve Interactive Digital Learning Environments', JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL COMPUTING RESEARCH, 55, pp. 526 - 551,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Munster AM, 2016, 'Into 'inter: the between in interacting', Rivista di Estetica, 63, pp. 56 - 67,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Munster AM, 2014, 'Transmateriality: Toward an Energetics of Signal in Contemporary Mediatic Assemblages', Cultural Studies Review, 20, pp. 150 - 167,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Munster AM, 2014, 'Transversal Interference', Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 20, pp. 146 - 157,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Münster A, 2013, 'Transnational Islamic movements', Transformation, 30, pp. 117 - 128,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Barker MF; Munster AM, 2012, 'HokusPokus', Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 18, pp. 52 - 58
    Journal articles | 2012
    Munster AM, 2012, '‘Pushing at Life’s Pulls. A Response to the Vital Politics of Experience in Escape Routes’', Rethinking Marxism, 24, pp. 436 - 441
    Journal articles | 2011
    Munster A, 2011, 'After the Digital Divide? German Aesthetic Theory in the Age of New Media', GERMAN QUARTERLY, 84, pp. 397 - 398,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Munster AM, 2011, 'From a Biopolitical ‘Will to Life’ to a Noopolitical Ethos of Death in the Aesthetics of Digital Code', Theory Culture and Society, 28, pp. 67 - 90,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Munster AM, 2011, 'Nerves of Data: the Neurological Turn in/against Networked Media’?', Computational Culture: A Journal of Software Studies, 1, pp. n/a - n/a,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Munster AM, 2011, 'Review of Koepnick, Lutz, and Erin McGlothlin, eds. After the Digital Divide? German Aesthetic Theory in the Age of New Media in', German Quarterly, 84, pp. 377 - 378
    Journal articles | 2010
    Munster AM, 2010, 'Syn-aesthetics – Total Artwork or Difference Engine? Thinking Synthesis in Digital Audiovisuality', Inflexions, 4, pp. http://www.inflexions.org/volume_4/n4_munsterhtml.html
    Journal articles | 2010
    Munster AM, 2010, '‘Bios and Baroque: Life in the folds of 17th-century Artifice and Contemporary Bioart’', Ars Aeterna, pp. 150 - 159
    Journal articles | 2009
    Munster AM; Murphie AK, 2009, 'Editorial: Web 2.0: Before, during and after the event', Fibreculture Journal,
    Journal articles | 2009
    Munster AM, 2009, 'The Henson photographs and the `network condition`', Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 23, pp. 3 - 12,
    Journal articles | 2005
    Munster AM; Lovink GW, 2005, 'Theses on Distributed Aesthetics Or What a Network is Not', Fibreculture Journal, issue 7
    Journal articles | 2005
    Munster AM, 2005, 'Why is Bioart Not Terrorism: Some Critical Nodes in the Networks of Informatic Life', Culture Machine, issue 7
    Journal articles | 2002
    Munster AM, 2002, 'Low Res Bleed: Congealed Affect and Digital Aesthetics', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 2, 3, pp. 77 - 95
    Journal articles | 2001
    Munster AM, 2001, 'Collaboration, Intersection or Hybridisation?: Interfacing Art, Science and New Media', Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly, pp. 1 - 3
    Journal articles | 2001
    Munster AM, 2001, 'Digitality - approximate aesthetics', CTheory
    Journal articles | 1999
    Munster A, 1999, 'Is there Postlife after Postfeminism? Tropes of Technics and Life in Cyberfeminism', Australian Feminist Studies, 14, pp. 119 - 129,
    Journal articles | 1997
    Hickie IB; Hadzi-Pavlovic D; Ricci C, 1997, 'Reviving the diagnosis of neurasthenia', Psychological Medicine, pp. 989 - 994
    Journal articles | 1987
    FORGAS JP; MOYLAN S, 1987, 'AFTER THE MOVIES - TRANSIENT MOOD AND SOCIAL JUDGMENTS', PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN, 13, pp. 467 - 477,
  • Creative Written Works | 2023
    Munster A; Goodman A, 2023, ChatGPT Did Not Take Place, Art +Australia, Baker S, (ed.), University of Melbourne,
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2021
    Munster A; Tan K; Mackenzie A, 2021, ImageMesh, ImageMesh, 01 July 2021 - 01 July 2025, medium: online interface, at: https://imagemesh.ai/
    Creative Written Works | 2021
    Munster A, 2021, Saana Suites, Hearing the Impossible, Herbert M, (ed.), Accidental Editions,
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2019
    Munster A; Barker M, 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/
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Barker M; Munster A, 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,
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2017
    Barker MF; Munster ; Kriss K, 2017, pull, Experimenta Make Sense, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 05 October 2017 - 11 November 2017, medium: video installation, at: http://experimenta.org/makesense/
    Conference Presentations | 2017
    Munster AM, 2017, 'DeepAesthetics: why we need artists’ eyes on AI', presented at Visualisation Matters, University of New South Wales, 22 November 2017 - 22 November 2017,
    Conference Presentations | 2016
    Biddle J; Munster A; Tello V, 2016, '[Convened Seminar Series]', presented at precarity//futurity//aesthetics, CCAP and Visual Anthropology, NIEA, UNSW Art & Design, -
    Conference Papers | 2016
    Munster AM, 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,
    Conference Presentations | 2016
    Munster AM, 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,
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2015
    Barker MF; Munster , 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
    Conference Papers | 2015
    Barker MF; Munster AM, 2015, 'The Feeling of the Wave (in 5 movements)', in Perception, Movement, Image – always more than human, Université du Québec à ѴDzԳٰé, Canada, presented at Media Art Histories: Re-Create 2015, Université du Québec à ѴDzԳٰé, Canada, 05 November 2015 - 08 November 2015,
    Theses / Dissertations | 2015
    Keulemans G, 2015, Affect and the experimental design of domestic products, University of New South Wales, Art & Design,
    Other | 2015
    Munster AM, 2015, 'From technology to techniques; from mediation to ‘immediation’. Or, what working with others and across media can teach us about bodies, experience and technics.', Keynote address, Unruly Techniques Symposium, Deakin University,
    Conference Presentations | 2015
    Munster AM, 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,
    Conference Papers | 2015
    Munster AM, 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
    Conference Presentations | 2015
    Munster AM, 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,
    Conference Presentations | 2015
    Munster AM, 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
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2014
    Barker M; Munster A, 2014, evasion, éDz, 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/
    Conference Presentations | 2014
    Barker MF; Munster , 2014, 'The Neuroscientific image', presented at Ultimo Science Festival, Powerhouse Museum, 11 September 2014 - 11 September 2014
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2014
    Barker MF; Munster , 2014, Struck II, Ultimo Science Festival, Powerhouse Museum, 11 September 2014 - 11 September 2014
    Conference Papers | 2014
    Barker MF; Munster AM, 2014, 'Struck and the medicalised body', Powerhouse Museum, presented at Ultimo Science Festival, Powerhouse Museum, 11 September 2014 - 11 September 2014,
    Other | 2014
    Munster AM; Mackenzie AB, 2014, Data Visualisation and radical empiricism: a workshop at the IT University Copenhagen, Denmark,
    Other | 2014
    Munster AM, 2014, Signaletic Immediations:sensing new media as relational events and ecologies (guest talk for 'Immediations' at Aarhus University, Denmark),
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2013
    Barker MF; Munster A, 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
    Conference Papers | 2013
    Barker MF; Munster AM, 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,
    Conference Presentations | 2013
    Munster AM; Barker MF, 2013, 'Perception and the nonhuman', presented at Posthumanist Desire: International Symposium, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan, 23 November 2013 - 24 November 2013,
    Conference Papers | 2012
    Barker MF; Munster A, 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,
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2012
    Barker MF; Munster AM, 2012, HokusPokus, International Festival of Digital Art, Watermans Gallery; London, UK, 14 April 2012 - 20 May 2012
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2012
    Munster AM; Barker MF, 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
    Other | 2012
    Munster AM; Barker MF, 2012, Application ID: 168851'To create an immersive installation exploring early cinema optics and illusion' Australia Council for the Arts. New Work Michele Barker & Anna Visual Arts $20,000
    Conference Presentations | 2012
    Munster AM, 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,
    Conference Papers | 2012
    Munster AM, 2012, 'Keynote Address: Tranmateriality', in Milne E (ed.), presented at CODE 2012, 21 November 2012 - 23 November 2012,
    Conference Papers | 2012
    Munster AM, 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,
    Other | 2012
    Munster AM, 2012, Invited \participant for the 2011 seminar on Renaissances: A Multiplicity of Rebirths,
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2011
    Barker MF; Munster A, 2011, HokusPokus, HokusPokus, CarriageWorks/Performance Space, Sydney, 04 November 2011 - 26 November 2011
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2011
    Barker MF; Munster A, 2011, The Duchenne Smile, The Duchenne Smile, Albury Digital Outdoor Gallery, 10 November 2011 - 23 December 2011
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2011
    Munster AM; Barker M, 2011, The Love Machine II, FACE TO FACE: Portraiture in a Digital Age, Seoul Museum of Art, 28 April 2011 - 29 June 2011, medium: digital images, at: http://www.dlux.org.au/cms/Past-Projects/face-to-face-portraiture-in-a-digital-age.html
    Conference Presentations | 2011
    Munster AM, 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
    Other | 2011
    Munster AM (ed.), 2011, Nerves of Perception: Motor and Sensory Experience in Neuroscience, Open Humanities Press, Online,
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2010
    Barker MF; Munster A, 2010, The 56th Blake Prize: Exploring the Religious and Spiritual in Art, Blake Prize for Religious Art, 06 October 2010 - 15 January 2011
    Conference Papers | 2010
    Barker MF; Munster AM, 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
    Conference Presentations | 2010
    Barker MF; Munster AM, 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
    Other | 2010
    Barker MF; Munster AM, 2010, Australia Council for the Arts Application ID: Category: New Work Established for the following purpose: Title: Create a multi screen interactive artwork that explores magic, perception and neurology Amount funded: $20,000
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2010
    Barker MF; Munster AM, 2010, Inside Out, Chulalongkorn University; Bangkok, 06 September 2010 - 16 October 2010
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2010
    Barker MF; Munster AM, 2010, Inside Out, DMU Cube Gallery; Leichester, UK, 01 September 2010 - 21 September 2010
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2010
    Munster AM; Barker M, 2010, Duchenne's Smile, File Festival, SESI Art Gallery, Sao Paolo Brazil, 27 June 2010 - 27 July 2010, medium: digital media, at: http://filefestival.org/site_2007/pagina_trabalhos_arquivo.asp?a1=330&a2=334&id=2
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2010
    Munster AM; Barker MF, 2010, The brainwave of a monk meditating on unconditional loving-kindness and compassion, Inside Out, DMU Cube Gallery; Leicester, UK, 01 September 2010 - 21 September 2010, medium: 3D print, at: http://phoenix.org.uk/index.php?cms_id=267
    Creative Written Works | 2009
    Munster AM, 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,
    Other | 2008
    Munster AM, 2008, Invited Lecture 'An Aesthesia of Networks', for Articulating Hybridity, Frank Gertz Memorial Lecture series, Alfred University, Alfred New York
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2007
    Barker MF; Munster A, 2007, Struck, Struck, Art Gallery of NSW, 08 February 2007 - 22 March 2007, at: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/struck/
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2007
    Munster AM; Barker MF, 2007, Struck: Michele Barker and Anna Munster
    Creative Written Works | 2007
    Munster AM, 2007, Emsamblar pensiamento colectivo: Assemblage for Collective Thought, A Minima, Espacio y Publicaciones
    Creative Written Works | 2007
    Munster AM, 2007, ‘Emsamblar pensiamento colectivo: Assemblage for Collective Thought’, Aminima Magazine
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2007
    Munster AM, 2007, Struck
    Conference Papers | 2006
    Munster AM, 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
    Creative Written Works | 2005
    Munster AM, 2005, Outage, Seepage, Blockage: art and cultural praxis in the network, Disobedience, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2002
    Munster AM, 2002, Aller Anfang
    Creative Written Works | 2001
    Munster AM, 2001, Symmetry and its Dissimilarities, Intersections of Art and Science, Ivan Dougherty Gallery
    Conference Papers | 2001
    Munster AM, 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
    Theses / Dissertations | 2001
    Munster AM, 2001, Machinic Disturbants: Genealogies of the Digital
  • Media | 2017
    Munster AM, 2017, DeepAesthetics,

Australian Research Council Discovery Project, ‘The Geopolitics of Automation’, 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, ‘Re-Imaging the Empirical: Statistical Visualisation in Art and Science’, 2017–2020. Lead CI. ($177k)

Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Canada, 2013–2019, co-applicant, Australian leader,Immediations Partnership Grant (Concordia University), Grant leader: Prof. E. Manning, 2013–2019 ($CA2.9million

Australian Research Council Linkage Project, ‘Reconsidering Australian Media Art History in an International Context’, 2011–2015, CI ($232,000)

Australian Research Council Discovery Project, team leader and lead C1, ‘Dynamic Media: innovative social and artistic developments in new media in Australia, Britain, Canada and Scandinavia since 1990’, 2007–2010

Australian Research Council Discovery Project, ‘The body-computer relation in new media art from 1984 to the present’, Lead CI, 2003-2005 ($90,000)

ARC, UNSW Student Council Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision, 2017

Dean’s Award, Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision, 2015, Faculty of Art and Design, University of New South Wales, Australia

‘Highly commended’ 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, “The Harries”, dynamic category, 2006. Acquisitive prize

Winner of University Press of New England Publishing Award ‘Best manuscript submitted for Interface Series’, 2005.

My Research Supervision

  • Monica Monin (PhD, practice-based) Coding Materialities (commenced 2014)
  • Alia Parker (Scientia PhD, practice-based) 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)