Picture Me. Presenting Queer Visual History
PicMe investigates how queer lives can be identified and interpreted through historical photographs when written records may be lacking.
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Trust and Visuality
TRAVIS studies trust and visuality in everyday digital practices.
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Visions of the City
This project investigates the ways images are used to advance visions of the city.
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Camera Studies
This network project examines camera-related technologies, their use as well as their influence on different cultures of use.
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The Speculative Camera
This project investigates how contemporary sensing systems – from cameras and radars to satellites, survey software and automated decision pipelines – shape what can be seen, known and acted upon.
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Synthetic Images, Synthetic Minds
This project investigates how generative AI image systems are transforming images from discrete artefacts into cognitive interfaces that couple language, perception and decision-making.
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Images and Peace
Imageandpeace is a website and teaching resource on the visualization of peace.
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Past projects
Banal Surveillance studied the normalization of surveillance technologies.
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Digital Face (2017–2019) studied networked interactions and how people negotiate face.
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Ethics of Photojournalism (2019–2022) studied ethics of photojournalism in the age of digital circulation.
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Expatriate Childhood investigated ethnographically children’s experiences of temporary migration.
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Envisioning Climate Change (2019–2022) studied and developed theoretical understandings of visual traces of climate change.
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Post-Visual Security studied the more-than-visual qualities of digital images.
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Visual storytelling of News on Instagram studied the presence of the Finnish news media outlets on Instagram.
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The Speculative Camera studied photography from the perspective of the camera.
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