Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges

Berry Sullivan is an artist-researcher working at the intersection of attention, perception, and encounter-based practice. She is currently a MARes candidate in Hybrid Arts at Ionian University, Corfu, where her work explores how sustained noticing can function as a method of artistic inquiry. Her long-term project The 8 Museum examines how repeated attention to a single form reshapes perception and authorship, while her more recent work Still Warm extends this practice into ethical and affective encounters with found animal remains, framing attention as both aesthetic and moral force.

Across her practice, Sullivan is interested in how patterns become immersive, how meaning accumulates through duration, and how artistic research can emerge from lived experience rather than theoretical pre-design. Her work draws on object-oriented ontology, hyperobject theory, and practice-led research traditions, while remaining grounded in curatorial and visual experimentation.

Alongside her academic work, Sullivan has a background in digital culture and technology, having authored and self-published JustNet’s Guide to the Internet in the 1990s, a widely read early guide to online culture. Today, her research continues to bridge art, theory, and everyday life, proposing attention itself as a medium through which new forms of knowledge and responsibility can emerge.