Tom Milnes is an artist, curator and researcher based in the UK. He is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Blended Realities, Falmouth University. Milnes’ research practice explores the materiality of imagery and technology, engaging with the cultural impact of media through glitches, errors or hidden subcultures. His practice explores the aesthetics of digital imagery incorporating emergent technologies such as photogrammetry, augmented reality and NetArt methods, often through sculptural or immersive experiences, as ways to challenge our relationship to digital technology and the physical world.

Milnes has published research papers with Journal of Artistic Research (JAR) and Visual Resources. He has exhibited internationally including at: W139 – Amsterdam , AND/OR – London, CEAC – Xiamen, The Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia – Gdansk, and Gyeonggi International Biennale – Korea. He is the curator of the online platform Polygon Palm.

Talks

• Research Track – Tom Milnes: The Extractive Image-World: Artistic Counter-Practices in Gaussian Splatting, NeRFs, and Volumetric Machine Vision