Outputs – Richard A Carter

Funded Research
Publications
Research Practice
- Artist’s Books and Digital Artworks
- Anthologies and Journals
Academic Presentations
Academic Events
Public Engagement

Funded Research

Principal Investigator, 2026: “Environmental Intelligence: Reimagining Environmental Sensing and Sense-Making” (York Environmental Sustainability Institute Fellowship). In partnership with the York Institute for Safe Autonomy, this project uses AI and environmental sensing technologies to creatively bridge the gap between climate data and human experiences of environmental change. The AI is part of an airborne sensory package that correlates real-time data with literary and social accounts, creating multimedia collages that invite audiences to consider a new vision of AI as a form of ‘Environmental Intelligence’.
Co-Investigator, 2022—, “Droned Life: Data, Narrative, and the Aesthetics of Worldmaking” (UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, PI Dr. Beryl Pong, Centre for Drones and Culture, Cambridge). Working in partnership with the Imperial War Museum Institute, Drone Wars UK, and Human Studio Limited, the project is creating dialogues between public and industry stakeholders in the drone world, creating research-led artworks (to be exhibited in spaces such as the Imperial War Museum) that explore the relationships between drone technology and society.
Co-Investigator, 2024: “Museum Visitor Experience and the Responsible Use of AI to Communicate Colonial Collections” (AHRC BRAID, PI Dr. Joanna Tidy, Sheffield). Working with Leeds Royal Armouries to scope the attitudes of public and industry stakeholders towards AI technologies, exploring their potential to be applied thoughtfully and responsibly to help investigate and ultimately communicate the colonial histories threaded throughout the Armouries’ collection. See also: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FZ505547%2F1.

Publications

Books

Carter, R. 2022. Signals. Guillemot Press. See: https://www.guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry/richard-carter-signals.
Carter, R. (Forthcoming 2026). War Machine. Punctum. See: https://punctumbooks.com/titles/war-machine/.

Book Chapters

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Carter, R. 2024. “Waveform: Writing across Oceans, Air and Algorithms”. Ambient Stories in Practice and Research – Digital Writing in Place. Ed. Amy Spencer. Bloomsbury. See: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ambient-stories-in-practice-and-research-9781350234147/.
Carter, R. 2024. “Speculative Visions—Drones, Digital Art, and Ecological Concerns”. Drones in Society: New Visual Aesthetics. Ed. Elisa Serafinelli. Palgrave. See: https://link.springer.com/book/9783031569838.
Carter, R. 2021. “Inscriptions to the Stars: Time, Space, and Extra-terrestrial Textualities”. The Future of Text II. Ed. Hegland, F. Future Text Publishing: Southampton. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48197/fot2021.
Carter, R. 2020. “Signal Generators: Digital Text in a Damaged Ecology”. The Future of Text. Ed. Hegland, F. Future Text Publishing: Southampton. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48197/fot2020a.
Carter, R. 2020. “Waves to Waveforms”. The Machine as Artist/The Machine as Art. Eds. Leymarie, F, Bessette, J, and Smith, G.W. MDPI: Bern. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-03936-065-9.

Journal Articles and Peer Reviewed Publications

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Tidy, J; Smith, S; Da Costa-Abreu, M; Gaeta, A; Pong, B; Carter, R; 2026. “Coloniality, Collections, and the Responsible Use of AI in Museums and Heritage”. See: https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/museums-ai-toolkit.
Martindale, S., Hook, J. D., Carter, R. 2025. “A Collective Interdisciplinary Agenda for Immersive Storytelling: Editorial Analysis”. Convergence 31(1), 3-17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565251321702.
Carter, R. 2025. “Book Review: Nonhuman Witnessing: War, Data, and Ecology After the End of the World, by Michael Richardson”. Continuum. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2025.2473428.
Carter, R. 2025. “Lines of Flight”. Media+Environment 6(2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/001c.125744.
Carter, R. 2024. “Art, Ecology, and AI: Envisioning More-than-Human Landscapes”. Visual Culture in Britain. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14714787.2024.2428061.
Carter, R. 2024. “Algorithmic Light”. The Digital Review 4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7273/x3d0-0047.
Carter, R. 2023. “Satellite Poetics and Provocations”. Cultural Geographies “Digital Ecologies in Practice” 0(0). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740231203714.
Carter, R. 2023. “Machine Visions: Mapping Depictions of Machine Vision through Critical Image Synthesis”. Open Library of Humanities Journal “Cultural Representations of Machine Vision” 9(2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.10077.
Carter, R. 2023. “Topographic Algorithms: Reimagining Environmental Sensing and Representation”. Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology “Reimagining AI” 9(2) 227-244. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/20539320.2022.2150469.
Carter, R. 2023. “Generative Unknowing: Nathan Allen Jones’ Glitch Poetics”. Electronic Book Review. See: https://electronicbookreview.com/essay/generative-unknowing-nathan-allen-jones-glitch-poetics.
Ng, J., and Carter, R. 2022. “Wayfaring in Space: Story as Environmental Encounters in Ruins (2011) and Sacramento (2016)”. New Techno Humanities 2(2) 113-120. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techum.2022.03.001.
Carter, R. 2022. “Executable Landscapes: Speculative Platforms and Environmental E-Literature”. Electronic Book Review. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7273/seea-7012.
Carter, R. 2021. “Orbital Reveries: Satellite Textscapes and Reframing the Multispectral Gaze”. The Digital Review 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7273/y54j-8s40.
Carter, R. 2020. “Waveform”. IJCMR Digital Ecologies “Fiction Machines” 5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33008/IJCMR.202017.
Carter, R. 2020. “Electronic Literature and the Anthropocene”. Electronic Book Review. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7273/rt06-ts14.
Carter, R. 2019. “Tweeting the Cosmos: On the Bot Poetry of The Ephemerides.” Convergence 26(4) 990-1006. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856519837796.
Carter, R. 2018. “Waves to Waveforms: Performing the Thresholds of Sensing and Sense-Making in the Anthropocene”. Arts 7(4). DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/arts7040070.
Carter, R. 2018. “Writing, Weaving, and Performativity: Some Notes on Solid State Poetry”. The Writing Platform. See: http://thewritingplatform.com/2018/10/writing-weaving-performativity-notes-solid-state-poetry/.
Carter, R. 2017. “Drone Poetry: On Deploying Sensory Technologies as Tools of Writing”. The Writing Platform. See: http://thewritingplatform.com/2017/09/drone-poetry-deploying-sensory-technologies-tools-writing/.
Carter, R. 2016. “Virtual Literatures: Technology, Agency, Meaning”. Countertext 2(3) 338-355. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/count.2016.0064.

Articles (non-refereed)

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Carter, R. 2021. “A Review of Sascha Engel’s Twenty-One Computations”. Babel Tower Notice Board. Available at [Archived]: https://web.archive.org/web/20211115213824/www.thebabeltowernoticeboard.com/articles/a-review-of-sasha-engels-twenty-one-computations-beir-bua-press-by-richard-a-carter.
Carter R. 2020. “A Review of Sarah Cave’s Perseverance Valley”. Babel Tower Notice Board. Available at [Archived]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210218222627/https://www.thebabeltowernoticeboard.com/articles/a-review-of-sarah-caves-perseverance-valley-by-richard-a-carter.
Carter, R. 2019. “The Book and its Algorithm”. Artist’s Book Yearbook 2020-21. Impact Press. See: http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/artists-book-yearbook/.

Proceedings (refereed)

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Carter, R. 2024. “Aeolian AI: Generative art and Environmental Computing”. EVA 2024, July 2024. BCS Electronic Workshops in Computing. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2024.59.
Carter, R. 2021. “Executable Landscapes: Speculative Platforms for Ecological E-Literature”. ELO 2021: Platform (Post?) Pandemic, May 2021. See: https://elmcip.net/node/16337.
Carter, R. 2018. “Airborne Inscription: Writing with Drones”. EVA 2018, July 2018. BCS Electronic Workshops in Computing. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.69.

Research Practice

This section details specific works that have been published standalone and excludes those created for exhibitions or for academic publications.

Artist’s Books and Digital Artworks

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Carter, R. 2025. Artist’s Book: Swarming Media. See: https://richardacarter.com/swarming-media/.
Carter, R. 2024. Digital Poem: Agentia. See: https://richardacarter.com/agentia/.
Carter, R. 2023. Artist’s Book: Text-Image. See: https://richardacarter.com/text-image/.
Carter, R. 2023. Artist’s Book: Machine Visions. See: https://richardacarter.com/machine-visions/.
Carter, R. 2023. Artist’s Book: Mindshadow. See: https://richardacarter.com/mindshadow/.
Carter, R. 2023. Artist’s Book: Orbital Reveries. See: https://richardacarter.com/orbital-reveries/.
Carter, R. 2023. Artist’s Book: Waveform [online edition]. See: https://richardacarter.com/waveform/.
Carter, R. 2022. Artist’s Book: Swipe. Paperview Books. See: https://paperviewbooks.pt/books/swipe/. See also: https://richardacarter.com/swipe/.
Carter, R. 2022. Artist’s Book: Emergent Typography. Paperview Books. See: https://paperviewbooks.pt/books/emergent-typograhy/. See also: https://richardacarter.com/emergent-typography/.
Carter, R. 2020. Zine: “The Landsat Reverie”. ZinesInDarkTimes. See: https://www.instagram.com/zinesindarktimes/.
Carter, R. 2020. Artist’s Book: Flowpath. See: https://richardacarter.com/flowpath/.

Anthologies and Journals

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Carter, R. 2025. Online Journal: “Flight Diaries”. The Lit Platform. See: https://theliteraryplatform.com/stories/flight-diaries/.
Carter, R. 2025. Online Journal: “Boid Poems”. The AI Literary Review. See: https://ailiteraryreview.co.uk/issue06.
Carter, R. 2025. Online Journal: “Watermarks”. Permeable Barrier. See: https://www.permeablebarrier.com/signal.
Carter, R. 2025. Online Journal: “Nephoscope”. Ambient Receiver. See: https://www.ambientreceiver.org/richard-a-carter.
Carter, R. 2025. Online Anthology: “Generative Text with transformers.js v3.0”. troubling AI: a screenshot archive. See: https://troubling-ai-archive.neocities.org/#R_8ke9Lj9dmr8jjYR.
Carter, R. 2024. E-Print Anthology: What We Did During the Apocalypse. Ed. Richard Capener. See: https://www.hempressbooks.com/shop/p/what-we-did-during-the-apocaypse-the-archive-of-the-babel-tower-notice-board.
Carter, R. 2023. Print Anthology: “Logic Gardens”. Seeing in Tongues. Ed. James Knight. See: https://www.steelincisors.com/s/stories/seeing-in-tongues-an-anthology-of-visual-poetry.
Carter, R. 2022. Online Anthology: Waveform. Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 4. The Electronic Literature Organisation. See: https://collection.eliterature.org/4/waveform.
Carter, R. 2021. Print and Online Anthology: “Orbital Reveries [#5]”. Poetrishy 1. See: https://www.poetrishy.org/.
Carter, R. 2021. Online Journal: “Martian Reveries No 1 & No 2”. Summerlude 2021: Cosmos. Pareidolia Literary. See: https://www.pareidolialiterary.com/summerlude-2021-cosmos-issue.
Carter, R. 2021. Online Journal: “Swipe”. Osmosis Press Featured Writing. See: https://osmosispress.com/2021/06/06/richard-carter-excerpts-from-swipe/.
Carter, R. 2021. Print Anthology: “Orbital Reveries [#3]”. The Mouth of a Lion: Visual Poetry from the End of the World. Ed. James Knight. See: https://steelincisorsvispo.wordpress.com/2021/05/07/the-mouth-of-a-lion/.
Carter, R. 2020. Online Anthology: “Orbital Reveries [#3]”. Streetcake Magazine. 70, Part 1. See: https://www.streetcakemagazine.com/uploads/2/4/7/1/24713274/issue_70_part1__2_.pdf.
Carter, R. 2020. Print Anthology: “Orbital Reveries [#2]”. Rewilding: An Ecopoetic Anthology. Crested Tit Collective. Available at [Archived]: https://web.archive.org/web/20220117214557/https://crestedtitcollective.com/shop/shop/. Review by Susie Campbell available at [Archived]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210115022639/https://www.poetsfortheplanet.org/yes-and-a-review-of-the-crested-tit-collectives-rewilding-anthology/.
Carter, R. 2020. Online Anthology: “A. Square Tweets Recollections of Spaceland”. Taper 5. See: https://taper.badquar.to/5/.
Carter, R. 2020. Print and Online Anthology: “Flow”. code::art 1. See: https://code-art.xyz/issues/.
Carter, R. 2019. Print and Online Anthology: “Solid State Poetry”. para text 7. Available at [Archived]: https://web.archive.org/web/20220316164527/https://www.paratext.co.uk/index-to-issue-7.

Academic Presentations

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Carter, R. 2026. “Speed Meet a Game: Agentia“. Play for the Planet 3: Play Harder! University of York, 24 April 2026.
Da Costa-Abreu, M; Pong B; Tidy, J; Carter, R; Gaeta, A. 2025. Poster Session: “A Dialogue on AI-powered Drone usage and the Dronotope tool for examining cross-sectoral drone developments”. UKAIRS, Northumbria University Newcastle, 9 September 2025. See: https://www.ukairs.ac.uk/poster-session-9-september/.
Carter, R. 2025. Invited: “Sensing / Knowing / Storytelling”. Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab, University of York, 2 May 2025.
Carter, R. 2025. “Lines / Waves / Volumes—Mapping Agency across Land, Sea, and Air”. Livingmaps More-than-Human Mappings. Senate House, University of London, London, 24 April 2025.
Carter, R. 2025. “There Should be No Digital Art – Troubling Digital Creativity with Permacomputing Practices”. Association for Art History Annual Conference. University of York, 10 April 2025.
Carter, R. 2025. Invited Keynote: “AI Imaginaries and Implications for Heritage Collections”. AI Avatars for Visitor Engagement – Opportunities and Ethics Workshop. National Trust, Swindon, 10 February 2025.
Carter, R. 2024. Invited Keynote: “Extractive Pasts and Generative Futures – Reworking the Imaginaries, Ecologies, and Colonialities of AI and Heritage Collections”. Artefacts XXIX/Congruence Engine Final Conference. Science Museum, London, 15 October 2024. See: https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/our-work/research-public-history/artefacts-consortium.
Carter, R. 2024. Invited: “Archiving the Age of Noise: AI, Art, and Meaning”. CNCI Digitisation and Cataloguing Subcommittee Seminar 2024. Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, 11 September 2024. See: https://crawfordartgallery.ie/cnci-digitisation-and-cataloguing-sub-committee-seminar-2024/.
Carter, R. 2024. Invited: “Instruments of Ecopoetic Mapping”. MeCCSA 2024: Transcending the Permacrisis, Manchester Metropolitan University, September 2024. See: https://www.schoolofdigitalarts.mmu.ac.uk/events/meccsa-conference-2024/.
Carter, R. 2024. “More-than-Human Media”. ELO 2024 Conference and Media Arts Festival, University of Central Florida, July 2024. See: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2024/, and https://stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2024/narrativeandworlds/schedule/17/.
Carter, R. 2024. “Aeolian AI: Generative art and Environmental Computing”. EVA 2024, British Computer Society, July 2024. See: http://www.eva-london.org/eva-london-2024/programme/.
Carter, R. 2024. “Alien Media: Writing/Coding After the Human”. Code as Conversation, University of Cambridge, June 2024. See: https://www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/37778/.
Carter, R. 2023. Invited: “Atmospheric Textualities”. ELO 2023 Conference and Media Arts Show. University of Coimbra, July 2023. See: https://ucpages.uc.pt/en/events/overcoming-divides-electronic-literature-and-social-change/.
Carter, R. 2022. Invited: “What is the history of remote sensing? History of Science, sensing, and colonial entanglements”. CRASSH Research Network. “Remote Sensing. Ice, Instruments, Imagination”. University of Cambridge, October 2022. See: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/networks/remote-sensing-ice-instruments-imagination/. See also: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/35717/.
Carter, R. 2022. “Drone Art and Ecological Concerns—Towards a Speculative Drone Aesthetics”. Drones in Society: New Visual Aesthetics. University of Sheffield, September 2022. Available at [Archived]: https://web.archive.org/web/20240301095249/https://visualsociety.net/conference/.
Carter, R. 2022. “Drone Outlooks and Digital Textscapes: Experimental Sensory Practices for Expanded Environmental Imaginaries”. DHRA 2022. Kingston School of Art, September 2022. Available at [Archived]: https://web.archive.org/web/20230329163630/https://www.drha.uk/2022/programme/. See also: https://www.kingston.ac.uk/events/item/3943/04-sep-2022-digital-research-in-the-humanities-and-arts-conference-2022/.
Carter, R. 2022. “A Speculative Satellite Poetics: Performing the Potentials of Earth Observation Data through Artistic Research”. Digital Ecologies in Practice. University of Bonn, July 2022. See: http://www.digicologies.com/conferences/2022-workshop/.
Carter, R. 2021. Invited: “Digital Art beyond Technical Reflexivity: Experiments, Environments, Concepts”. STEAM: The movement towards creative STEM learning. Digital Education Futures Initiative, University of Cambridge, August 2021. See: https://www.deficambridge.org/events/steam-creative-stem-learning.
Carter, R. 2021. Invited: “In the Wake of Waveform”. Fiction Machines Part III, Bath-Spa University, July 2021.
Carter, R. 2021. Invited: “Arts of the Datacene: Sensing and Narrating a Technogenic Future”. Curating Art and Nature: The Knowledge of the Curator III, University of Groningen, July 2021. See: https://www.rug.nl/research/icog/research/research-centres/artsinsociety/news-and-events-ais/2021-06-02-ahss-carter?lang=en. See also [Archived]: https://web.archive.org/web/20220705180022/https://www.rug.nl/education/summer-winter-schools/knowledge_of_the_curator/?lang=en.
Carter, R. 2021. “Land/Code/Text: Digital Writing and Speculative Environmental Sensing”. (Re)Imagined Landscapes Symposium, University of Bristol, June 2021. See: https://bristolenvironmentalhumanities.wordpress.com/2021/04/21/lvl-symposium-reimagined-landscapes/.
Carter, R. 2021. “Executable Landscapes: Speculative Platforms for Ecological E-Literature”. ELO 2021: Platform (Post?) Pandemic, May 2021. See: https://conferences.au.dk/elo2021/.
Carter, R. 2021. “Datacene: Nonhuman Perception in the Art of the Anthropocene”. Art + Anthropocene: Culture, Climate and Our Changing Planet, University of York, March 2021. See: https://artanthropoceneyork.mystrikingly.com/.
Carter, R. 2021. “Algorithmic Light—Sensory Entanglements and Executable Environments”. Process, Practice, and Environmental Crisis, University of York, February 2021. See: https://processpracticeenvironment.wordpress.com/.
Carter, R. 2020. Invited: “The Future of Text: Emergent Ecologies”. The Future of Text Symposium, London, November 2020. See: https://futuretextpublishing.com/first_edition_launch/.
Carter, R. 2019. “Electronic Literature in the Anthropocene”. The Electronic Literature Organization Conference and Media Arts Festival (ELO 2019), University College Cork, July 2019. See: http://hdl.handle.net/10468/8128, and https://elmcip.net/critical-writing/electronic-literature-anthropocene.
Ng, J., and Carter, R. 2019. “Wayfaring in Time—The Ambient Storytelling of Wandering Games”. MIX 2019, Bath-Spa University, July 2019. See: http://mixconference.org/archive/mix-2019/.
Carter, R. 2019. “Entangling Air, Sea, and Sensors: Wavescapes and Waveforms”. Moving Literary Geographies, Royal Holloway, June 2019. See http://narrativegeographies.com/portfolio-item/moving-literary-geographies-narrative-forms-and-practices-of-mobilities/.
Carter, R. 2019. “Sensing the Anthropocene—Detectors, Drones, and Data-Driven Poetry”. Art in the Anthropocene, Trinity College Dublin, June 2019. See: https://artintheanthropocene.com/.
Carter, R. 2018. “Airborne Inscription: Writing with Drones”. EVA 2018 BCS Electronic Workshops in Computing, British Computer Society, July 2018. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.69.
Carter, R. 2018. “Reading the Waveform: Deterritorializing the Sensory”. EVA Copenhagen, Aalborg University, May 2018. See: https://eva-copenhagen.possiblefuturelab.dk/.
Carter, R. 2017. “Aeroculture: Writing the Nonhuman in the Age of the Anthropocene”. MIX 2017: Writing Digital, Bath Spa University, July 2017. See: http://mixconference.org/archive/mix-2017/.
Carter, R. 2017. “Reading the Waveform: Deterritorializing the Sensory in Drone based Arts Practice”. MeCCSA PGN Conference 2017 Borders & Boundaries: Territories, Technologies, Transgressions, Goldsmiths, University of London, June 2017.
Carter, R. 2017. “Enacting the Nonhuman Eye: Digital Visualisation as Performative Knowledge-Making Practice”. New Perspectives in Digital Humanities, Kings College London, May 2017. See: https://dhh.uni.lu/2017/05/23/visualisation-visual-thinking-arts-humanities-new-perspectives-digital-humanities-conference/.
Carter, R. 2016. “Digital Literature & The Entanglements of Networked Agency”. Looking for Agency: The Politics of the Material and Beyond, University College London, March 2016.
Carter, R. 2015. “Entanglements and Interventions: Exploring the Digital World through Art”. Kinesis and Stasis, London Barbican, November 2015.
Carter, R. 2015. “Defining the Digital Arts: A Case Study in Digital Literature”. Blue Skies Above, Solid Ground Below: Innovation and Sustainability in Digital Humanities, King’s College London, June 2015.
Carter, R. 2014. “God’s Eye View: The Digital Earth from Orbit”. Green Connections: Environmental Response & the Arts, University of Exeter, September 2014.
Carter, R. 2014. “Data Space: Discovering the Digital Cosmos”. Cosmographies, Falmouth University, July 2014.

Academic Events

Invited, Funded Participant: Artificial Intelligence Humanities Sandpits. Montréal, 16-20 February 2026. See: https://www.centrefordronesandculture.com/blog/conference.
Sandpit workshops funded by the AHRC and EPSRC through the International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF), and Canadian SSHRC in partnership with the Alan Turing Institute and The University of Edinburgh. Emerging out of the “Doing AI Differently: Rethinking the foundations of AI via the Humanities” project, these events will explore how humanistic insight can inform systems that do not attempt to imitate human judgement but can respond contextually to the complexity of human and more-than-human experience while remaining computationally tractable. Particular focus is on exploring how AI systems can be concretely developed in accordance with Humanities principles, with the aim of initiating funding research projects later in 2026 that will realise them.
Conference Organiser, Facilitator, Speaker: “Critical Drone Studies: Drones in Society, Politics, and Culture. University of Cambridge, 25-26 June 2026. See: https://www.centrefordronesandculture.com/blog/conference.
Conference organised as part of the UKRI funded project “Droned Life: Data, Narrative, and the Aesthetics of Worldmaking”, of which I am a Co-I. This conference seeks to engage in boundary work that moves the field of drone studies towards a more heterogeneous understanding of drones in society, politics, and culture, aiming towards a critical drone studies that acknowledges both how individual motivations and creativity shape what a drone is and does, and how such engagements are also influenced by institutions and power.
Workshop Organiser, Facilitator, Speaker: Colonial Collections and the Responsible Use of AI in Museums and Heritage. Leeds Royal Armouries, 24 June 2024. See: https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/braidmuseumsworkshop/home.
Workshop organised as part of the AHRC BRAID funded project “Museum Visitor Experience and the Responsible Use of AI to Communicate Colonial Collections“, of which I am a Co-I. This event sought to inform and generate new knowledge and understanding concerning current and potential approaches to responsible AI and colonial material within a museum and heritage context, drawing on the participant’s perspectives in this area. Presented on foundational questions concerning the nature various AI technologies and outlined some of its emerging applications. Facilitated group discussions.
Centre Representative and Public Interviewer: From Sniper to Smartphone: Hybrid Warfare and the New Face of Conflict. Imperial War Museum, 18 November 2023. See: https://www.iwm.org.uk/events/from-sniper-to-smartphone, and https://www.centrefordronesandculture.com/events/from-sniper-to-smartphone-hybrid-warfare-and-the-new-face-of-conflict, and https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/news/archives/7969.
Symposium organised by the Centre for Drones and Culture, of which I am a core team member, in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum Institute. This public event was designed to publicly debate the contemporary status of “hybrid warfare” and the role of advanced digital technologies in enabling it. The data gathered from public interviews during the event will form the basis of a future impact case study.
Invited Workshop Lead: “Orbital Reveries”. Exploring Practices between the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities. CRASSH Research Network: Remote Sensing: Ice, Instruments, Imagination. University of Cambridge, 20-21 April 2023. See: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/38138/, and https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/blog/remote-sensing-exploring-practices-between-the-arts-sciences-and-humanities/.
Lead a workshop for participants to engage in an activity of speculative sensing and sense-making, using satellite data and creative text annotation. See the outcome of this exercise at this link here.
Invited, Funded Participant: Future Histories of Machine Vision. Machine Vision in Everyday Life. Bergen, 31 March – 2 April 2019. See: https://www.uib.no/en/machinevision/126210/future-histories-machine-vision.
Workshop organised by the project “Machine Vision in Everyday Life: Playful Interactions with Visual Technologies in Digital Art, Games, Narratives and Social Media”. This event followed on from the 2018 workshop in Solstrand, exploring potential future scenarios of machine vision through speculative methods, resulting in a diverse range of imagined worlds developed by participants. Participants developed accompanying materials including excerpts from future academic texts and a catalogue for a speculative art exhibition focused on machine vision. The resulting work was intended to be compiled into an anthology, alongside analyses of real-world applications and cultural impacts of machine vision technology.
Invited, Funded Participant: Machine Vision Solstrand Workshop. Machine Vision in Everyday Life. Solstrand, 5-6 November 2018. See: https://www.uib.no/en/discipline/digitalculture/121894/first-workshop-hosted-machine-vision.
Workshop organised by the project “Machine Vision in Everyday Life: Playful Interactions with Visual Technologies in Digital Art, Games, Narratives and Social Media”. Participants were invited to imagine the future of machine vision and write summaries and bibliographies for speculative books that would be needed to understand these technological shifts.

Public Engagement

Media Coverage

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Boffey, D., Bryant, M. 2025. “‘A collective anxiety attack’: the psychology of unexplained drone sightings across Europe”. The Guardian, 5 October. See: https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/oct/05/a-collective-anxiety-attack-the-psychology-of-unexplained-drone-sightings-across-europe.
Lupetti, M. 2025. “Ecco quali sono stati i migliori 10 videogiochi del 2024 [Here are the top 10 video games of 2024]”. Artribune, 7 January. See: https://www.artribune.com/progettazione/new-media/2025/01/migliori-videogiochi-2024.
Ennis, M. 2024. “York arts community optimistic in face of AI”. Nouse, 25 November.
Evans-Thirlwell, E. 2024. “In pensive browser game Agentia, you can explore and assemble poetry as a beetle, a dinosaur or an island”. Rock, Paper, Shotgun, 5 September. See: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/in-pensive-browser-game-agentia-you-can-explore-and-assemble-poetry-as-a-beetle-a-dinosaur-or-an-island.
Brown, G. 2024. AI and the Museum and Heritage Sector [Television News Interview]. That’s TV, 19 February.
Ferreira, B. 2022. “How to Write Poetry to Communicate With Aliens”. VICE, 28 June. See: https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgpqxk/how-to-write-poetry-to-communicate-with-aliens.
McCabe, C. 2022. “Next gen poetry publishers show us the way”. The Bookseller, 8 June. See: https://www.thebookseller.com/comment/next-gen-poetry-publishers-show-us-the-way.
Russell, S. 2020. “Why take something inherently digital and make it physical?” Mazzotti Books, 7 April. See: https://mazzottibooks.co.uk/blog/2020/4/7/why-take-something-inherently-digital-and-make-it-physical.

Invited Public Talks

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Carter, R. 2025. Invited: Towards a Wind Humanities. Royal Meteorological Society, Yorkshire Branch. 19 November 2025. See: https://www.rmets.org/event/towards-wind-humanities.
Carter, R. 2025. Invited: “Agentia Introduction”. Aesthetica Short Film Festival, 5 November 2025.
Carter, R. 2025. Invited: Launch Event: Wind as Model, Media, and Experience, June 2025.
Carter, R. 2025. Invited: ABC: Art, Biodiversity and Collaboration. York Festival of Ideas, June 2025. See: https://yorkfestivalofideas.com/2025/calendar/abc-art/.
Carter, R. 2023. Invited: “Waveform”. Wait, this is Poetry? The Common Press, November 2023.
Carter, R. 2022. Invited: “Encoding Signals – Writing the Alien”. OulipoToAI, October 2022.
Carter, R. 2022. Invited: “Signals”. Guillemot Press Book Launch, 17 March 2022.
Carter, R. 2021. Invited: “Algorithms, Waveforms, and Orbital Reveries”. Runnymede Literary Festival, March 2021.
Carter, R. 2021. Invited: “Writing with Algorithms”. ArtBlab, March 2021. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPXUHjxjPSA&list=WL&index=2. See also: https://www.artblab.london/.
Carter, R. 2020. Invited: Artists’ Books Now: Futures. British Library, February 2020. See: https://www.bl.uk/events/artists-books-now-futures.
Carter, R. 2021. Invited: “Waveform”. But There is No Land Near the End. Glasgow School of Art, March 2018. See [Archived]: https://web.archive.org/web/20220526142913/https://www.creativecarbonscotland.com/guest-blog-but-there-is-no-land-near-the-end/.
Carter, R. 2015. Invited: Wor(l)ds in Collision—Art, Poetry and Wittgenstein. University of Exeter, June 2015.
Carter, R. 2014. Invited: The Long Goodbye: A Conversation across a Century. University of Exeter, August 2014.

Exhibitions

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Carter, R. 2026. Invited: “Waveform”. Instituting Commoning: A Platform for Un/Learning. NCAD, Dublin. 30 January – 27th February 2026. See: https://www.ncad.ie/gallery-event/view/instituting-commoning-a-platform-for-un-learning, and https://ncadinpublic.ie/public-programmes/instituting-commoning-a-platform-for-un-learning.
Carter, R. 2025 “Agentia”. Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York. 5-9 November 2025. See: https://issuu.com/aesthetica_magazine/docs/aesthetica_short_film_festival_programme_2025?fr=sODQzNzg1ODgxMjM.
Carter, R. 2025. “Agentia”. Voidspace Live 2025. Theatre Deli, London. June 2025. See: https://voidspacezine.com/event/voidspace-live-2025/.
Pong, B., Carter, R., da Costa-Abreu, M., Gaeta, A., and Tidy, J. 2025. “Dronotope: The Politics of Timelines and Data Visualisation”. Cambridge Festival. University of Cambridge. See: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/45869/.
Carter, R. 2024. Invited: “Signals [Video and Poster Installation]”. Milky Way Tour. 15 November 2024 – 23 March 2025. Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma | Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki. See: https://kiasma.fi/en/exhibitions/milky-way-tour/.
Pong, B., Carter, R., da Costa-Abreu, M., Gaeta, A., Kacmaz-Milne, Z., and Tidy, J. 2024. “Beware Blue Skies: The Psychology of Drone Warfare”. War on the Mind. Imperial War Museum, London. 7 November 2024 to 16 March 2025. See: https://www.iwm.org.uk/events/beware-blue-skies-the-psychology-of-drone-warfare. See also: https://www.centrefordronesandculture.com/beware-blue-skies.
Carter, R. 2024. “Waveform”. New Generations. LCB Depot, Leicester. 12 – 26 January 2024. See: https://lcbdepot.co.uk/event/digital2024/.
Carter, R. 2022. “Waveforms”. Filter Insta-Zine: Instagram Storytelling and Zine Culture. The NEXT. See: https://the-next.eliterature.org/exhibition/filter/.
Carter, R. 2021. “Waveform [film]”. Computer Vision Art Gallery, Ethical Considerations in Creative applications of Computer Vision (EC3V). 2021 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). See: https://computervisionart.com/pieces2021/waveform/.
Carter, R. 2020. “The Aftermath Atlas”. After Progress. Available at [Archived]: https://web.archive.org/web/20221004230925/https://www.afterprogress.com/the-aftermath-atlas.
Carter, R. 2020. “Orbital Reveries [#1]”. Trånslatiøns. Mellom Press. Available at [Archived]: https://web.archive.org/web/20220417092717/https://mellompress.com/translations/.
Carter, R. 2019. “Waveform”. Peripheries: Electronic Literature and New Media Art. Glucksman Gallery. See: http://www.glucksman.org/exhibitions/peripheries.

Press Releases

University of York. 2024. “York academic co-creates immersive film to explore the psychological impact of drone warfare”, 5 December. See: https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2024/research/impact-drone-warfare/.
University of York. 2024. “University of York part of project to look at how AI could reshape the museum and heritage sector”, 15 February. See: https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2024/research/museum-heritage-ai/.
University of Roehampton. 2021. “Roehampton academic presents experimental writing at Runnymede Literary Festival”, 31 March. Available at [Archived]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210725163907/https://www.roehampton.ac.uk/media-culture-and-language/news/roehampton-academic-presents-experimental-writing-at-runnymede-literary-festival/.