Anthony Downey

Anthony Downey is a Professor of Visual Culture in the Middle East and North Africa (Birmingham City University). He sits on the editorial boards of Third Text, Digital War and Memory, Mind & Media, respectively, and is the series editor for Research/Practice (Sternberg Press, 2020–ongoing). Recent and upcoming publications include Post-Digital Futures and Algorithmic Anxieties (MIT Press, 2024); Nida Sinnokrot: Palestine Is Not a Garden (Sternberg Press & MIT Press, 2023); Khalil Rabah: Falling Forward – Works, 1995–2025 (Sharjah Art Foundation and Hatje Cantz, 2022); and Topologies of Air: Shona Illingworth (Sternberg Press & The Power Plant, 2022). He is the Cultural and Commissioning Lead on a four-year multi-disciplinary AHRC Network Plus award, where his research focuses on supporting cultural practices, digital methodologies and educational provision for children with disabilities in Lebanon, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Jordan (2020–2024).

www.anthonydowney.com

Decolonising Machine Vision: Algorithmic Anxieties and Epistemic Violence