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Dr. Anthony Downey is Professor of Visual Culture, with a specific focus on the Middle East and Global South (Birmingham City University). Anthony's research and teaching is focused on emerging forms of cultural production, digital methodologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Computer Vision.
He sits on the editorial boards of Third Text (Routledge), Digital War (Palgrave Macmillan), and Memory, Mind & Media (Cambridge University Press), and is the series editor for Research/Practice (Sternberg Press/MIT Press, 2019–ongoing). Upcoming and recent publications include Trevor Paglen: Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations (Sternberg Press/MIT Press, 2024); Neocolonial Visions: Algorithmic Violence and Unmanned Aerial Systems (PostScriptUM no. 47, 2023); Khalil Rabah: Falling Forward—Works 1995- 2025 (Sharjah Art Foundation and Hatje Cantz, 2023), and Shona Illingworth: Topologies of Air (Sternberg Press and The Power Plant, 2021). In 2025, he will publish Decolonizing Vision: Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Anxieties & the Future of Aerial Warfare (MIT Press, 2025).
In his capacity as BCU-lead, Downey is the Cultural and Commissioning Lead on a 2.2 million (GBP) AHRC Network Plus award (2021-2025), where he focuses on supporting interdisciplinary cultural practices and the expansion of educational provision for people with disabilities in Lebanon, the occupied Palestinian territories, and Jordan. The latter award was preceded by an AHRC Development Award (2019-2021).
For a fuller list of research outputs, see here:
https://www.bcu.ac.uk/art/about-us/our-expertise/our-staff/anthony-downey
For a fuller list of activities and upcoming events, see here:
www.anthonydowney.com
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