Andrew Meares | Cybernetic Futures Lead
Australian National University

Professor Andrew Meares leads the Cybernetic Futures group at the Australian National University School of Cybernetics. Andrew applies cybernetic approaches to how we think about, talk about and visualise "the future". Andrew's research considers how systems are built, sustained and maintained through imaginaries and infrastructures.  Andrew leads research and education experiences in cybernetic futures that focus on hope, creativity and adapation, the Artificial Intelligence tech stack, and manages the Cybernetic Imagination residency program. He is a co-investigator of an ongoing research project on Australia’s first digital system, the Overland Telegraph Line. He was the lead curator of the exhibition Australian Cybernetic: A Point Through Time (2022) and lead author of the exhibition book (2024). He brings thirty years of industry experience as a Walkley award-winning photojournalist at The Sydney Morning Herald. He has served as the president of the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery (2015-2017) and as a senior adviser to the Leader of the Opposition (2017-2019).