Justin Harvey is an artist and academic living and working on Gadigal land with a diverse background in visual arts & production. As well as writing/directing his own short films, Justin has worked in research and camera departments for TV, as DOP on music videos, producer/director on advertising campaigns and picture editor on feature documentary and drama projects.

Justin's creative practice research spans photography, moving image, installation and virtual reality experience in solo and collaborative practice. He nurtures an ongoing fascination with the creative potentials of human machine interaction, embracing experimental methods that seek to exploit digital imaging technologies, and the evolving ‘artificial intelligence’ systems that increasingly drive them, in unintended and playful ways. His solo works have explored the ‘glitch’ as aesthetic and political movement, still and moving image collage, the novel shaping of digital video feedback and imagery generated using a variety of diffusion models. His research in creative uses of GenAI informs his teaching in experimental media arts.

Justin has exhibited artwork in public exhibitions in Sydney, Chicago, Vancouver, Amsterdam, Hong Kong and South Korea. His 2023 collaboration with generative AI, Unprompted Studies 1-3, was a finalist in the Fisher's Ghost Art Award.

Justin was a funded 2024 Scholar in the Sydney Powerhouse Museum's 'Research Scholars Program', partnering with Dr Doris Li from UTS School of Design. Their cross-disciplinary research project, "Knit Forward" saw them reimagine Myra Mogg's 1930s hand-knitted garments from the Powerhouse collection using generative AI and fabricate new garments using seamless knitwear technology. 

Recent publications:

• Harvey, J. (2026). Photography. In: Böhm, S., Collins, S., Godulla, A., Keith, S., Savery, R. (eds) Handbook of AI-based Media Disruption. Future of Business and Finance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-07605-2_4 
• Harvey, J. (2025). Oneironaut  [1975-2025]. In ‘I Dream of Reality’, VIVID Sydney.