Katrina Sluis

Katrina Sluis is Associate Professor and Head of Photography & Media Arts at the Australian National University's School of Art & Design within the College of Arts & Social Sciences. She co-convenes the Computational Culture Lab and serves as Chair of the Research Committee. Previously, she was Senior Lecturer and founding Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image at London South Bank University, and held the inaugural position of Senior Curator (Digital Programmes) at The Photographers' Gallery in London, where she now continues as Adjunct Research Curator.

Her educational background includes a PhD from the University of Sunderland, MA from University of the Arts London, PGCHE from London South Bank University, and BFA (Hons) from the University of New South Wales. Sluis serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Photographies (Routledge) and Media:Art:Write:Now (Open Humanities Press), and is a Board Member of PhotoAccess, the ACT's center for photography. She advises Serpentine Galleries on Future Art Ecosystems 2 & 3, and has served on international juries for the P3 Post-Photography Prototyping Prize, Organ Vida Festival, and Brighton Photo Fringe's OPEN20 SOLO award.

Sluis' research focuses on the politics and aesthetics of art and photography in computational culture, examining social circulation, automation, and cultural value. As a curator and educator, she has worked extensively with museums and galleries to develop digital strategies, programming, and pedagogy. Her current work addresses emerging paradigms of human-machine curation in response to the massive intensification of global image production and circulation. Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, her project 'Curating Photography in the Networked Image Economy' explores the transit of data analytics and AI imaginaries into museums.

Her recent publications reveal a strong focus on the intersection of photography, artificial intelligence, and network culture. Key themes include machine vision's photographic theory, generative AI's impact on photographic style, the cultural value of photographic documentation in the age of big data, and the transformation of museum practices in the networked image economy. Her work consistently bridges technical developments in computer vision with critical cultural analysis.

• Editorial Advisory Board, Photographies (Routledge)
• Editorial Advisory Board, Media:Art:Write:Now (Open Humanities Press)
• Board Member, PhotoAccess Incorporated
• Advisor, Serpentine Galleries Future Art Ecosystems
• Peer Assessor, Creative Australia
• International jury member for P3 Post-Photography Prototyping Prize

Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, her project 'Curating Photography in the Networked Image Economy' explores the transit of data analytics and AI imaginaries into museums, while an AHRC-funded research strand examines computational reproduction's impact on the art object. She is registered to supervise higher degree research students and co-convenes the Computational Culture Lab, which investigates how network culture transforms the production and circulation of images and cultural objects. Her research has generated 267 citations with an h-index of 4 according to Scopus.