Katrina is presently Head of Photography & Media Arts in the School of Art & Design where she also co-convenes the Computational Culture Lab. 

Prior to joining ANU, Katrina was based in London where she was Senior Lecturer & founding Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI), London South Bank University. The Centre brought together researchers from cultural studies, software studies, art and media practice to develop knowledge and understanding of how network culture transforms the production and circulation of images and cultural objects. With an emphasis on artistic and practice-based research, the Centre addressed the separation of cultural policy, practice and theory through collaborative research partnerships with Rhizome, Tate, The Photographers' Gallery, Serpentine Galleries, Royal College of Art & Gasworks. 

From 2011-2019 she also held the inaugural post of Senior Curator (Digital Programmes) at The Photographers’ Gallery, London developing artistic and public projects engaged with machine vision, synthetic imaging, net culture and speculative photographic education, commissioning new work from artists including James Bridle, Alan Warburton and Morehshin Allahyari. Key projects include the platform Unthinking.Photography, “Post-Capitalist Photography Now!” (with Ben Burbridge), “All I Know is What’s On the Internet” and “Jonas Lund: Operation Earnest Voice” which transformed a floor of The Photographers’ Gallery into a fully staffed ‘influencing agency’ tasked with reversing Brexit over 4 days in January 2019. She continues to work with The Photographers' Gallery as Adjunct Research Curator. 

She serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Photographies (Routledge) and Media:Art:Write:Now (Open Humanities Press) and the Board of Photoaccess, the ACT's centre for photography. She serves as an advisor on Serpentine Galleries Future Art Ecosystems 2 & 3, as well as an international jury member for the P3 Post-Photography Prototyping Prize in Switzerland (2019), 11th Organ Vida Festival Croatia (2020) and Brighton Photo Fringe's OPEN20 SOLO award (2020), UK. 

PhD (Sunderland), MA (UAL), PGCHE (LSBU), BFA (Hons) (UNSW)

Katrina Sluis’ research is broadly concerned with the politics and aesthetics of art and photography in computational culture, its social circulation, automation and cultural value. As a curator and educator, for the past decade she has worked with museums and galleries to support digital strategy, digital programming and pedagogy. 

Her present work addresses the emerging paradigms of human - machine curation, as a contemporary response to the massive intensification of global image production and circulation. Funded by the SNSF, the project "Curating Photography in the Networked Image Economy", explores the transit of data analytics and AI imaginaries into the museum on the one hand, and discourses of aesthetic modernism and curating into the computer sciences on the other.

A second strand of AHRC funded research explores the role of computational reproduction on the art object - connecting practices of art documentation to emerging discourses of adtech, digital marketing and big data.