Professor Natasha Lushetich

Qualifications:

BA (Hons), MA, PhD, SFHEA

Position:

Professor in Digital Media, Art & Theory

Department:

College of Arts, Technology and Environment

Telephone:

+441179656261

Email:

Natasha.Lushetich@uwe.ac.uk

About me

I am an interdisciplinary theorist-practitioner. At UWE Bristol, I am Professor in Digital Media, Art & Theory, and Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded project ENERGY: A Philosophy of Practice (2023–2027). I joined UWE in May 2026 from the University of Dundee where I was Professor of Contemporary Art, Media & Theory, Associate Dean of Research, and Co-Director of the Leverhulme Doctoral Programme regenr8-i.

Area of expertise

In my research I rely on theoretical methods such as diffractive reading and media archaeology, and practice-based methods like artography and deep mapping. I focus mainly on critical mediality, global art and artistic epistemology, the status of sensory experience in cultural knowledge, and structure and infrastructure. My last research project (also funded by the AHRC, 2020–2022), is: The Future of Indeterminacy: Datafication, Memory, Bio-Politics.

The research projects I have led thus far are all inter- or cross-disciplinary. Prior to The Future of Indeterminacy, I led the NAC and LaSalle-funded Imaginations of Disorder in Art, Science and Philosophy (2016–2018); the HASS- and Maudsley Foundation-funded Spaces of the Mind (2013–2016); and the Bridging the Gaps-funded Critical Gaming (2012–2013). I have authored and edited 8 books and my recent writing has appeared in AI & Society; Artnodes; Contemporary Aesthetics; Environment, Space, Place; Leonardo; Media Theory; On Curating; Parallax; Performance Research; Rhizomes; The Philosophical Salon; TDR; and The Journal of Somaesthetics and in a number of edited collections.

I have delivered over fifty invited talks, keynotes, and workshops at academic institutions, such as the University of Cambridge, Duquesne, Nanyang, NYU, Sorbonne, Utrecht and Western Australia, among others; at cultural institutions like De Balie and Felix Meritis, Amsterdam; and at public sector institutions, such as Bethlem Royal Hospital, London. 

Current Research students:

Margaret Kerr: Recovering What has been Left Behind: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Interconnected Ways of Knowing (final year, University of Dundee)

Nuo Cheng: Seeing Through Cavalier Perspective: Hieronymus Bosch’s World and Chinese Spatial Perception (thesis defended in March 2026, corrections submitted in April 2026).

Jodie Williamson: Towards a Technology-Informed Philosophy of Education (Final year, University of Dundee)

Yimou Huang: How to Touch Nature? A Comparative Analysis of Chinese Taoism and Western Ecofeminism (final Year, University of Dundee)

Heather Maycock: Rehearsing Death: A Cultural Analysis of Death in Video Games (2^nd year, University of Dundee)

Monica Dritschel: More and Less: Approaching Nothingness through Indefinable Artistic Practices (2^nd year, University of Dundee)

Haorui Yu: VULCA: Cross-Cultural Multimodal AI Evaluation for Art Understanding (2^nd year, University of Dundee)

Domenica Landin: Towards Multispecies Competencies in Collaborations Beyond the Human (2^nd year, University of Dundee)

Publications

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