@profgillian
digital things, visual culture, cities, visual research methods. And sometimes academic life. Prof of Human Geography at the University of Oxford. I still blog, occasionally, here: https://visualmethodculture.wordpress.com/
Did you know Tila Tequila was one of the internet's first influencers? 🤔 How do you think early pioneers like her shaped today's social media landscape?
Don't miss this podcast episode with Lisa Nakamura discussing these insights and more!
YouTube: youtu.be/2LfDIyFPZOI?...
A true publishing event... The collected writings of the esteemed Katherine McKittrick, out now from the @uminnpress.bsky.social.
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791706...
Looking for public domain & open license images? “Openverse is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone... [searching] 800 million images and audio tracks from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset.“ Also, attribute authorship with one click 📸
'Sensorial Methodologies, Extended Urbanization'
Excited to be involved in this event in Sheffield (12 March) at the Site Gallery inc film screening, book launch + panel discussion w/ @nitin-bathla.bsky.social, Junia Mortimer and more
More info here: sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come
🚨CFP: The ADM+S Generative Authenticity project is hosting a small scholarly symposium on Authenticity, Generative AI and Synthetic Media on 6-7 May at QUT Kelvin Grove (and hybrid node).
Short abstracts due 9 March.
All info and the submission form: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Last week on Wonkhe: For Rex McKenzie, higher education assessment has always privileged certain discourses – but the rise of artificial intelligence means that this can no longer hold
Rest in Power, Teresa de Lauretis (1938 - 2026). 💔
I wrote a blog on images and cultural geography, prompted by an essay in an excellent collection convened by @benandersongeog.bsky.social @vickiezhang.bsky.social available here: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/473927627/DIGITAL-Promises_revised_5Sep25.pdf
Now I think about it, perhaps Cathy being driven to a breakdown by lack of economic independence and denial of personal autonomy while Heathcliff is unstinting in his cruelty and personal vengeance is indeed a story for our times, but the romcom vibe of the movie press tour still jar a bit
‘fun’ fact: established in 1991 (yes, 1991 not 1891), the Vautrin Lud prize has been awarded to a grand total of five women. #geosky
✍️ @profgillian.bsky.social
🔍 If in #digital #visual culture, images require screens and data networks to become visible, how does this mediate the #infrastructure of cities both materially and imaginatively?
📖 buff.ly/gltMcGX
reminded of this resource by @jilltxt.bsky.social
betterimagesofai.org
Published my first piece at @wired.com today, about a string of AI thrillers that have bombed (most recent being the hopelessly naive Chris Pratt vehicle 'Mercy'), the backlash to Darren Aronofsky's YouTube slop take on the American Revolution, and a grotesque nostalgia-bait Super Bowl ad:
I have a new paper out: "image, screen, projection: conceptualising the urban (imaginary) in digital visual culture." #urban #visualculture #imaginary
available #openaccess here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A few days ago we lost an important hidden figure in the history of 20th century Cold War technology—Gladys West’s work and insights were essential in the creation of GPS:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I wrote an enthusiastic review of 'The Smartness Mandate' and 'The Ordinal Society', with added geographies.
@ohalpern.bsky.social @marionf.bsky.social @dgrgrgs.bsky.social
learn more about the visual politics of lots of ecologies by registering for the Digital Ecologies conference, 2-3 Feb in Oxford - tickets going fast! 🧐
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual...
@digicologies.bsky.social
The first talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @rikjaz.bsky.social (@uclgeography.bsky.social)
Tuesday 27th January, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
The @leverhulmecal.bsky.social PhD studentships are now live here leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk/leverhulme-c... Are you looking for a PhD programme that supports interdisciplinary approaches to algorithmic life? Closing date 26 February
delighted to be part of this amazing lineup. #geosky
register now for the Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies conference, 2-3 Feb 2026 in Oxford! with keynotes @joannazylinska.bsky.social and Daisy Ginsberg www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual... 🌳 📹 🦫 🛰️
this was a hugely impactful event, centring on the multiple costs of chronic and endemic precarity in UK HE. the full report and some highly practical action plans are here: www.rgs.org/research/hig...
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #HigherEd
@rgs-ibghe.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social
"extensive powers" that hopefully exclude the use of #AIslop to visualise new infrastructure and other development. this kind of glutinous aerial AI landscape is so thoughtless about picturing place, the built environment and how they're experienced in multiple ways. @bildoperationen.bsky.social
register now for the Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies conference, 2-3 Feb 2026 in Oxford! with keynotes @joannazylinska.bsky.social and Daisy Ginsberg www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual... 🌳 📹 🦫 🛰️
Cuts, mergers, and redundancies risk hollowing out the discipline and eroding its interdisciplinary core. Geography’s future depends on confronting precarity head-on. Join us for our launch event on Wednesday!
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
sci fi novel recommends from my 2025 reading
I read (and watch) quite a lot of science fiction - mostly new, or new-ish. Here are sci fi novels I would recommend from what I read in 2025 - there are actually ten, so I guess this is yet another 'top of 2025' list, albeit a bit late: Sierra Greer,…
A white consumer drone hovers in front of the viewer
CFP, Please Share - A few days left to submit for "Critical Drone Studies: Drones in Society, Politics, and Culture" (25-26 June 2026, University of Cambridge) - Deadline for proposals: 12 January www.centrefordronesandculture.com/blog/confere...
#drone #cfp #conference #academicSky
Join us for our report launch event next Wednesday, 1pm-2.30pm [Online]
Guest speakers:
Prof. Gillian Rose, Lekan Adekola, Matilda Fitzmaurice, Jay Todd
Register 👇
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
‘Imagine a whole army wading ashore at you through the snowmelt, writhing fused limbs and non-Euclidean torsos, every zoomed-in detail a hideous AI patchwork. The chicken-dogs were even worse.’
Mark Sinker (@hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social) on a divisive AI mural.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
