Adam Fish

>Adam Fish is a Scientia Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Arts and the Media, at the University of New South Wales. He is a cultural anthropologist, documentary producer, and interdisciplinary scholar who works across social science, computer engineering, environmental science, and the visual arts. He employs ethnographic, participatory, and creative methods to examine the social, political, and ecological impacts of new technologies.
He has authored three books: Hacker States (MIT 2020, with Luca Follis), about how state hacking impacts democracy; Technoliberalism (Palgrave Macmillan 2017), an ethnography of the politics of internet and television convergence in Hollywood and Silicon Valley; and After the Internet (Polity 2017, with Ramesh Srinivasan), which reimagines the internet from the perspective of grassroots activists, citizens, and hackers on the margins of political and economic power.
His current research is based on four years of collaboration with over 70 civic drone pilots, engineers, entrepreneurs, inventors, scientists, and anti-drone activists in extreme locations around the world. He has completed a documentary on this project, Crash Theory.

PROJECT

On the boundary between fact and fiction, science and art, life and death, flourishing and extinction, the water and the air, Adam will explore the real and imaginary cryptid or unconfirmed animals in Tinos, along with research groups from the local community of Tinos. Semi-autonomous, motile, atmospheric, and underwater drones fitted with video cameras and microphones will be used to gather factual and fictitious evidence for the presence of cryptid species at the air-water interface around Livada Beach.