Alexander Walmsley

Research Focus

Simulation, complexity, realtime, digital aesthetics, artistic research

Bio

Alexander Walmsley (b. 1992) is a media artist and researcher with a particular interest in the landscapes of the real and the virtual. His recent work has been shown at the Daejeon Biennale of Arts and Sciences, Sharjah Art Foundation, The Photographers’ Gallery, and St. Moritz Art Film Festival. He was a commissioned artist for the Albanian pavilion of the 59th Venice Biennale and was shortlisted for the Deloitte Photo Grant in 2023. He previously studied Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Cambridge (UK) and the University of Geneva (CH), and is currently a lecturer at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf in Potsdam, where is also undertaking an artistic PhD on the subject of computational complexity and earth simulations.

Publications

Walmsley, A. 2024. Landing Sites. Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Aesthetics, Computation, and X (xCoAx), https://classof24.xcoax.org/paper09.html

Walmsley, A., Serneels, V., Hajdas, I. and Mayor, A. 2020. Variability of early iron production in the Falémé valley, eastern Senegal. African Archaeological Review 37, 225-250

Walmsley, A. and Kersten, T. 2020. The Imperial Cathedral in Königslutter (Germany) as an Immersive Experience in Virtual Reality with Integrated 360° Panoramic Photography. Appli. Sci. 2020, 10, 1517

Walmsley, A. and Kersten, T. 2019. Low-Cost Development of an Interactive, Immersive Virtual Reality Experience of the Historic City Model Stade 1620. Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.,At: LowCost 3D, Strasbourg. Volume: XLII-2/W17, 405-411

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