Josh Harle

Most Recent Affiliation(s):

University of New South Wales, Fine Art, and Continental Philosophy and College of Fine Arts

Other Affiliation(s):

Tactical Space Lab, Founding Director

ISEA Bio(s) Available:

ISEA2024

Dr Josh Harle is a neurodivergent researcher, educator, and media artist, with a background in computer science & cybernetics, philosophy, and fine art. His doctoral thesis formed part of an Australian Research Council industry linkage grant with the NSW Emergency Information Coordination Unit, developing new approaches to digital spatial representation in crisis contexts, including the use of game engines as research tools in the investigation of existing and speculative architecture.

His practice investigates diverse forms of ‘sense-making’, technology as cultural practice, and the expressive potential of repurposing digital capture tools through hacking, experimentation, and play.

He is passionate about sharing knowledge, improving accessibility, and legibility of emerging technologies as expressive tools, and has lectured and given masterclasses and workshops internationally, across all ages, on the creative applications of digital technologies.

Harle is the founding director of Tactical Space Lab, a research space investigating innovative uses of emerging technologies for art-making, through collaborative artist workshops. Since 2017, the lab has hosted 14 artists, with major outcomes including two of the three Mordant / Australia Centre for Moving Images (ACMI) VR commissions.

ISEA2023

Dr. Josh Harle is a neurodivergent researcher, educator, and media artist. He investigates diverse forms of sense-making, technology as cultural practice, and the expressive potential of digital technologies through hacking and repurposing. He hosts a VR artists’ studio program at Tactical Space Lab, Sydney, Australia.

ISEA2015

Dr Josh Harle (AU) is a multidisciplinary researcher and new media artist with a background in Computer Science, Philosophy, and Fine Arts. His research investigates the virtual spaces generated by emerging technologies, our encounters with the world through them, and their social and political impacts. Josh Harle is a Visiting Fellow at UNSW Art & Design, and the director of the Tactical Space Lab.

ISEA2013

Josh Harle is a mutli-disciplinary PhD candidate researching Tactical Space through an Australian Research Council Linkage grant. He has a background in Computer Science, Fine Art, and Continental Philosophy, and works between the School of Design, COFA, and the Faculty of the Built Environment, UNSW. His practice involves the development of software to map, scan, and visualise physical space, as well as the creation and exploration of virtual environments as potential sites for both poetic, creative expression and rationalisation, digitising and ordering of space.