Vision Cultures

Paul R. Martin received his PhD in Physiology at the University of Sydney in 1986. Following postdoctoral work in Germany, in 1992 he joined Faculty at the University of Sydney. From 2003 to 2009 he was Director of Research at the National Vision Research Institute of Australia and Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He took up his current appointment as Professor of Experimental Ophthalmology at the University of Sydney in 2010.

Madeleine Kelly (b. Freising, Germany, 1977) arrived in Australia in 1980 and is a visual artist of Australian and Peruvian descent who primarily works in painting. Her work engages with human encounters with ‘nature’ and elemental forces. Bringing together figuration and abstraction, her practice is a mixture of the cosmic and the material that explores the many, often ineffable, points of contact between people, animals and plants such that the material world is transformed in rich and absorbing fantasy. Madeleine majored in Fine Art at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, in 1999, and her practice-led PhD was conferred by the same institution in 2013.

Alexandre Cardaillac received his PhD in engineering with the Department of Marine Technology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, as part of the Applied Underwater Robotics Laboratory. He is now a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Australian Center For Robotics at the University of Sydney and the ARIAM Hub where he studies underwater perception and how it can be used to improve the autonomy and situational awareness of underwater vehicles. His work focuses on combining visual and acoustic data to create hybrid representations of underwater environments.