Alison Bennett

Alison Bennett’s broader practice is situated in ‘expanded photography’ where the boundaries have shifted in the transition to digital media and become diffused into ubiquitous computing. Creative projects have tested the creative and discursive potentials of augmented reality, photogrammetry, 3D scanning, point clouds, virtual reality and webXR as encompassed by the medium and practice of photography. As a neuroqueer new-media artist, Bennett has explored the performance and technology of gender identity and considered the convergence of biological and digital skin as virtual prosthesis.

Bennett’s work has been shown at international venues such as Musée du Louvre, Kunstmuseum Bonn, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and featured on ABC TV Australian Story, the New York Times, Mashable, The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Motherboard, The Creators Project, ABC TV News, Artlink and The Guardian.

Bennett is a founding member of the QueerTech.io artist collective and have served on a number of development panels for the Midsumma Festival. In 2021, Bennett was a member of the Digital Advisory Group of the Australia Council for the Arts, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body. Bennett works as a senior lecturer in photography at RMIT School of Art where I am the associate dean (photography).

Interviewed in 2022 by Alasdair Foster for Talking Pictures, (queering the paradigm) Bennett proposed that “We are shifting from knowing the world through photographs to finding ourselves enmeshed within the architecture of the image.”