Amber Hanson is a Cambridge-based artist working across speculative media, digital systems, and experimental image-making. Her practice spans moving image, web-based installation, and chemical painting, exploring how technologies reshape perception, authorship, and memory. Drawing from post-internet aesthetics, archival logic, and open-world systems, she builds works that remain evolving living documents responsive to interaction, environment, or time.
Papers & Research
Post-Internet as Open World: Distributed Spectatorship Beyond the Screen
Research paper exploring distributed spectatorship and open-world visual environments in post-internet culture. Selected for Besides the Screen Ningbo 2026, University of Nottingham Ningbo China.
Decommissioning the Decisive Moment: Duration and Violence in Computational Image Culture (2026)
Paper examining how predictive and infrastructural systems challenge the notion of discrete moments in image production. Read →
VISIONLEARNER (2024)
Research Publication & LLM Software / AI Visual Literacy Project. Research project developing a framework for extending text-based AI systems toward interpreting and generating visual meaning. Explores representation, modality translation, and the limits of machine understanding within cultural and educational contexts. Homerton College, University of Cambridge.
How can open-world technologies establish and maintain r/evolving environments of interactional ground for creativity and learning (2022)
Goldsmiths University of London.
Implications of Obscured Original Sound Sources on the Authenticity of Electroacoustic Music (2019)
Dissertation. Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Read →
Editorial & Publications
Peer Reviewer, First Monday: Journal of Internet Studies (Ongoing)
Editorial peer review role · University of Illinois at Chicago
Peer Reviewer, JAWS: Journal of Arts & Writing by Students (2022–23)
Editorial peer review role.
Editor, CURSOR Mag Issue 7: In The Archives (2025)
In the Archives centres around the question of classification, and on the potential of counter-archiving to challenge dominant narratives and power structures. Read →
NEX-MOD Manual (2025)
Nex-Mod Interface Manual. Available as a First Edition (Hardback) of 100. Read →
Die Neue Normalität (2020)
Publication · Austrian Cultural Forum & Vienna School of Fine Arts. Read →
Variations I (2014)
Publication · Printed Matter, New York. Read →
SURSUMA
Interview × Yuma Yanagisawa (2026)
Editorial interview. Read →
Interview × Hannah Woo (2025)
Editorial interview. Read →
Interview × 404.zero (2025)
Editorial interview. Read →
Interview × Lenka Gliskníková (2025)
Editorial interview. Read →
Interview × Sougwen Chung (2025)
Editorial interview. Read →
Interview × Thijs Biersteker (2025)
Editorial interview. Read →
Selected Exhibitions
The Float Element, Solo Show. Aura Space, Braga. Portugal.
Emergent Flora, Interdisciplinary Exhibition. Cambridge Digital Humanities.
John Hughes Memorial Exhibition, Jesus College, Cambridge University.
Queens Arts Festival, Queens College Art Gallery, Cambridge.
Debating Language, The Cambridge Union.
The Photocopy Club, 10 years, The Courtyard Theatre, London.
St. Pete, Intermezzo, Florida.
Perez Art Museum, Miami, Florida.
Tampa Indie, Tampa, Florida.
Whitechapel Gallery Art Night — Garden of Virtual Utopias, Production.
South London Gallery SLAM Art Tour.
Weather Pt. 2, Team Titanic Gallery, Berlin.
Weather Pt. 1, AquaBit Gallery, Berlin.
Extended Play, Collaborative Performance. The Foundry, London.
Source Display: Street Photography. Tate Britain, London.
Source Display: Collage. Tate Britain, London.
MiniClicks — Another Way of Looking. Brighton Photo Fringe Biennial.
Whitney Museum of Art, New York. (The SP Tour)
Fort Smith Regional Art Museum, AR. (The SP Tour)
LACMA, Los Angeles. (The SP Tour)
NoBo Art District, North Boulder, CO. (The SP Tour)
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, IA. (The SP Tour)
Millennium Park, Chicago. (The SP Tour)
Ideas City StreetFest, New Museum, New York. (The SP Tour)
Brooklyn Art Library, New York. (The SP Tour)
Seattle Art Museum / Olympic Park. (The SP Tour)
The Yard San Francisco, CA. (The SP Tour)
First Friday Art Murmur Oakland, CA. (The SP Tour)
Ponce City Market, Atlanta. (The SP Tour)
MDC Museum of Art + Design, Miami. (The SP Tour)
Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum, Austin, TX. (The SP Tour)
Chicago Loop Alliance, Chicago. (The SP Tour)
The Distillery Historic District, Toronto. (The SP Tour)
The Photocopy Club × Michael Jang. Book & Job Gallery, San Francisco.
Franklin Arts Center, Minnesota.
IsThisIt, curated by GGeorgeArts.
ThirtyWorks, curated by 12ø & Set The Controls.
The Listening Booth, curated by GGeorge Arts.
The Printhouse Gallery, London.
Education
Homerton College, University of Cambridge / PGCert Education/Teaching
Goldsmiths University of London / MA Arts & Learning
Central Saint Martins, UAL / BA (Hons) Fine Art
Awards & Press
Deutsche Bank & Common Purpose Photography Award Recipient
Exhibition Documentary / Chinese Xinhua News Agency
Vogue Italia — Art & Commerce Licence for Photographic Essays (Concluded)