Anthony Downey

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Anthony is interested to hear from potential PhD students with interests that connect to his supervisory expertise, which includes:

Contemporary Cultural Production in Middle East and Global South
Digital Methodologies and Practice-Based Research
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Neoliberalism, Globalisation, and Cultural Critique
Human Rights, Bio-politics, and Migration in Contemporary Art Practices
New media, Performativity and Civil Society

Willing to speak to media

Research activity per year

24 Article
19 Book
9 Chapter
3 Review article
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2025
Nida Sinnokrot: Palestine Is Not a Garden
Downey, A., Sinnokrot, N. & Sheikh, S., 1 Feb 2026, Germany: Sternberg Press and MIT Press. 272 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
2024
Algorithmic Predictions and Pre-Emptive Violence: artificial intelligence and the future of unmanned aerial systems
Downey, A., 1 Jan 2024, In: Digital War. 4, 1-3
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
Influencing machines: Trevor Paglen and Anthony Downey
Paglen, T. & Downey, A., 20 Nov 2024, In: Digital War. Vol 6. , 3
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
The Airspace Tribunal: Towards a New Human Right to Live Without Physical or Psychological Threat From Above
Downey, A., Illingworth, S., Hoskins, A. & Salecl, R., 31 May 2024, Digital War, 5, 1-2, p. 1-266 266 p.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Special issue
The Future of Death: Algorithmic Design, Predictive Analysis, and Drone Warfare
Downey, A., 1 May 2024, War and Aesthetics: Art, Technology, and the Futures of Warfare. Bjering, J., Engberg-Pedersen, A., Gade, S. & Strandmose Toft, C. (eds.). MIT Press
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Trevor Paglen: Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations
Downey, A. & Paglen, T., 2024, Berlin: Sternberg Press and MIT Press. 172 p. (Research/Practice; vol. 4)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
2023
Khalil Rabah: Falling Forward / Works (1995–2025)
Downey, A., Holert, T., Salti, R., Al Qasimi, H., Lionis, C. & De Cesari, C., 1 Jan 2023, Germany: Sharjah Art Foundation and Hatje Cantz. 548 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Mnemotechnics: Digital Epistemologies and the Techno-Politics of Archiving a Revolution
Downey, A., 1 Sept 2023, The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East. Khalil, J., Khiabany, G., Guaaybess, T. & Yesil, B. (eds.). Wiley Blackwell, p. 363-381 18 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Neocolonial Visions: Algorithmic Violence and Unmanned Aerial Systems
Downey, A., 1 Nov 2023, Slovenia: PostScriptUM 47 (Ljubljana: Askioma). 22 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

Open Access
Topologies of Air and the Airspace Tribunal: Shona Illingworth and Anthony Downey
Downey, A. & Illingworth, S., 22 Jan 2023, In: Philosophy of Photography. 12, 1-2, p. 7-25 19 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
2022
Programmed Visions and Techno-Fossils: Heba Y Amin and Anthony Downey in conversation
Downey, A. & Amin, H. Y., 2022, In: Third Text.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Shona Illingworth: Topologies of Air
Downey, A. & Illingworth, S., 1 Jan 2022, United Kingdom: Sternberg Press. 272 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
The Algorithmic Apparatus of Neocolonialism: Counter-Operational Practices and the Future Of Aerial Surveillance
Downey, A. & Illingworth, S., 31 Jan 2022, Shona Illingworth: Topologies of Air. Downey, A. (ed.). Germany: Sternberg Press and the Power Plant, p. 275 283 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

Open Access
2021

After Mosul: The cultural and political economy of destruction and reconstruction
Downey, A., 16 Mar 2021, Terrorism and the Arts: Practices and Critiques in Contemporary Cultural Production. Taylor & Francis, p. 81-105 25 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Calculating Skies: Topologies of Air and the Airspace Tribunal
Downey, A., 6 Jul 2021, In: MIT Press Reader. 10, 1
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access
The Algorithmic Apparatus of Neo-Colonialism: Or, can we hold "operational images" to account?
Downey, A., 2021, In: Nordic Journal of Aesthetics. 30, 61, p. 78-82 5 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access

1 Citation (SciVal)
The Future of Protest (Images) in a Post-Digital Age
Downey, A., 5 Apr 2021, The Protest and the Recuperation. Hertz, B. S. & Premnath, S. R. (eds.). United States: Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, NYC, p. 30 19 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Open Access
2020
Algorithmic Anxieties: Trevor Paglen in conversation with Anthony Downey
Downey, A. & Paglen, T., 18 Feb 2020, In: Digital War. 1, 1-3, p. 18-28 10 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
Contesting Post-digital Futures: Drone Warfare and the Geo-politics of Aerial Surveillance in the Middle East
Downey, A. & Y. Amin, H., 10 Jul 2020, In: Digital War. 1, 1, p. 65-73 8 p., 4.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
Drone Technologies and the Future of Surveillance in the Middle East: Heba Y. Amin & Anthony Downey in conversation.
Downey, A. & Amin, H. Y., 5 Mar 2020, MIT Press Reader.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Heba Y. Amin: The General's Stork
Downey, A., Y Amin, H., Poitras, L., Harvey, A., Iskander, A. & Mossad, H., 12 Jul 2020, 1 ed. Berlin and London: Sternberg Press. 160 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Michael Rakowitz: I’m good at love...
Downey, A. & Rakowitz, M., 7 Apr 2020, Germany. 172 p. (Research Practice; vol. 1, no. 1)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
“Avian Prophecies and the Techno-Aesthetics of Drone Warfare: Heba Y. Amin and Anthony Downey”
Downey, A. & Y. Amin, H., 9 Jun 2020, (W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War and Contemporary Art. Agostinho, D., Bonde Thylstrup, N., Gade, S. & Veel, K. (eds.). Germany: Sternberg Press and MIT Press, p. 143-162 19 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
2019
Critique in Practice: Renzo Martens’ "Episode III: Enjoy Poverty"
Downey, A. & Roelandt, E., 1 Sept 2019, Berlin: Sternberg Press. 372 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Larissa Sansour: Heirloom
Downey, A., Muller, N., Lindsey, L. & Sansour, L., 1 Jul 2019, 1 ed. Berlin: Sternberg Press. 160 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Photography as Apparatus: Akram Zaatari in Conversation with Anthony Downey
Downey, A., 19 Feb 2019, In: Critical Interventions Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture. 12, 2, p. 218 230 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2018
Mediating Social Media: Akram Zaatari in Conversation with Anthony Downey
Downey, A. & Zaatari, A., 14 Jul 2018, Third Text.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
The Politics of Shame: Ai Weiwei in conversation with Anthony Downey
Downey, A. & Weiwei, A., 2018, Skopje: The Large Glass. 14 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

Open Access
Transposing the Vernacular: Moving Images in the Work of Akram Zaatari
Downey, A. & Zaatari, A., 30 Sept 2018, New Art Exchange. 42 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Vital Materialism: Filming the Anthropocene: John Akomfrah in Conversation with Anthony Downey
Downey, A. & Akomfrah, J., 12 Feb 2018, Third Text.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
2017
Don't Shrink me to the Size of a Bullet: The Works of Hiwa K
Downey, A. & K, H., 30 Jul 2017, Germany: Walter Koenig Books .
Research output: Book/Report › Book
"Scopic Reflections: Incoming and the Technology of Exceptionalism", catalogue published on the occasion of Richard Mosse: Incoming, 15 February - 23 April 2017, published in 2017 by Barbican Curve Gallery, London EC2Y 8DS United Kingdom. ISBN 978 0 9957082 0 4
Downey, A. & Pardo, A. (ed.), 2017, London, UK: Barbican Gallery. 5 p. (Barbican Curve Series)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
"Where to Now: Imminent Impermanence in the Work of Sheela Gowda", catalogue published on the occasion of Sheela Gowda, Ikon Gallery, November 2017. ISBN 978-1-911155-10-2
Downey, A., 2017, Birmingham: Ikon Gallery.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
2016
Future Imperfect: Contemporary Art Practices and Cultural Institutions in the Middle East
Downey, A., 31 Oct 2016, Berlin, Germany: Sternberg Press. (Visual Culture in the Middle East)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
2015
Dissonant Archives: Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East
Downey, A., 29 May 2015, London and New York: I.B. Tauris. (Visual Culture in the Middle East)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Slavs and Tatars: Mirrors for Princes
Downey, A., 28 Feb 2015, Zurich: JRP Ringier.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
2014
Art and Politics Now
Downey, A., 31 Oct 2014, London and New York: Thames and Hudson.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
For the common good? Artistic practices and civil society in Tunisia
Downey, A., 30 Sept 2014, Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practices in North Africa and the Middle East. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., p. 53-69 17 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Introduction
Downey, A., 30 Sept 2014, Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practices in North Africa and the Middle East. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., p. 13-29 17 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2 Citations (SciVal)
Uncommon grounds: New media and critical practices in North Africa and the Middle East
Downey, A., 30 Sept 2014, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 359 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
9 Citations (SciVal)
2013

Exemplary subjects: Camps and the politics of representation
Downey, A., 1 Jan 2013, Giorgio Agamben: Legal, Political and Philosophical Perspectives. Taylor & Francis, p. 119-142 24 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

3 Citations (SciVal)
2009
An ethics of engagement: Collaborative art practices and the return of the ethnographer
Downey, A., 2009, In: Third Text. 23, 5, p. 593-603 11 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
20 Citations (SciVal)
Children of the revolution contemporary Iranian photography
Downey, A., 2009, In: Aperture. 197, p. 38-44 7 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

1 Citation (SciVal)
Inside/outside: Contemporary German photography
Downey, A., 2009, In: Aperture. 196, p. 16-17 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Thresholds of a coming community: Photography and human rights
Downey, A., 2009, In: Aperture. 194, p. 36-42+8
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

5 Citations (Scopus)
Zones of indistinction: Giorgio Agamben's 'bare life' and the politics of aesthetics
Downey, A., Mar 2009, In: Third Text. 23, 2, p. 109-125 17 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

55 Citations (SciVal)
2007

Belatedness all over again
Downey, A., 2007, In: Third Text. 21, 6, p. 779-783 5 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Towards a politics of (relational) aesthetics
Downey, A., 2007, In: Third Text. 21, 3, p. 267-275 9 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

25 Citations (SciVal)
2006

A life full of holes
Downey, A., 2006, In: Third Text. 20, 5, p. 617-626 10 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

4 Citations (Scopus)
Critical Imperatives: Notes on Contemporary Art Criticism and African Cultural Production
Downey, A., 21 Jul 2006, In: Wasafiri. 21, 1, p. 39-48 10 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2 Citations (Scopus)

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