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• Professor of Visual Culture, Birmingham City University

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Anthony Downey is Professor of Visual Culture (Birmingham City University), where his research and teaching focuses on contemporary cultural production from the Global Majority, fairness and governance in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative AI (GenAI) and creative practices, and post-disciplinary models of knowledge production in the arts.

Anthony's recent and forthcoming publications include Nida Sinnokrot: Palestine is not a Garden (Sternberg Press and MIT, 2026); Trevor Paglen: Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations (Sternberg Press, 2024); Khalil Rabah: Falling Forward-Works 1995- 2025 (Sharjah Art Foundation and Hatje Cantz, 2023), Neocolonial Visions: Algorithmic Violence and Unmanned Aerial Systems (PostScriptUM no. 47, 2023); and Shona Illingworth: Topologies of Air (Sternberg Press and The Power Plant, 2021). In 2027, he will publish Decolonizing Vision: Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Anxieties & the Future of Aerial Warfare (MIT Press, 2027).

Anthony sits on the editorial boards of Third Text (Routledge), Digital War (Palgrave Macmillan), Memory, Mind & Media (Cambridge University Press), is the founder and series editor for Research/Practice (Sternberg Press). He is currently co-editing the first Special Journal Collection on AI and Memory for Memory, Mind & Media (Cambridge University Press).

Experience

• 2016–present Professor of Visual Culture, Birmingham City University

Education

• 2006 Goldsmiths College, PhD

Publications

• 2025 AI as Alibi: Algorithmic Models of Automated Death,
• 2025 Creative Endings: Visual Cultures, Generative Artificial Intelligence & the Return of the Uncanny,
• 2024 Trevor Paglen: Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations,
• 2024 Algorithmic Predictions and Pre-Emptive Violence,
• 2024 The Return of the Uncanny: Artificial Intelligence & Estranged Futures,
• 2023 The Airspace Tribunal (Journal of Digital War,
• 2023 Neocolonial Visions: Algorithmic Violence and Unmanned Aerial Systems,
• 2022 Shona Illingworth: Topologies of Air,
• 2022 Falling Forward: Khalil Rabah-Works, 1995-2025,
• 2020 Larissa Sansour: Heirloom,
• 2020 Heba Y Amin: The General's Stork,
• 2019 Michael Rakowitiz: Michael Rakowitz (2019) I'm good at love, I'm good at hate, it's in between I freeze,
• 2019 Critique in Practice,
• 2017 Don't Shrink Me to the Size of a Bullet: The Works of Hiwa K,

Grants and Contracts

• 2025 AHRC Network Plus Award Role: Co-Investigator Funding Source: Global Challenges Research Fund

Professional Memberships

• Editor, Third Text (Routledge)
• Editor, Digital War (Palgrave MacMillan)
• Associate Editor, Memory, Mind & Media (Cambridge University Press)
• Series Editor, Research/Practice (Sternberg Press)
• Advisory Board, Disruption Network Institute: Berlin, DE
• International Series Advisory Board, New Directions in Contemporary Art (Lund Humphries)
• Advisory Board, Centre for Drones & Culture (Cambridge University)

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