Carloalberto Treccani received his PhD degree at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Currently, he is a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing of Hong Kong Baptist University. His work explores the development of visually ‘intelligent’ machines and their implications on what we know and think on the ways we see the world. His research interests include perception and aesthetic studies, intelligence studies, emotional AI, contemporary visual arts, photography, visual cultural studies and cultural studies at
large. His scholarly work has been published in several academic journals, including Leonardo (MIT Press), European Journal of Media Studies (Amster- dam University Press) and AI & Society (Springer). He is currently working on a book titled Vision, visual perception and visuality in the ages of ‘intelligent’ machines.

As an artist, his work interrogates the production, reproduction, manipulation, circulation, perception, and falsification of images to investigate the formation of the contemporary gaze. His artwork has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions, among which are Metafotografia III (2021), The Hong Kong International Photo Festival (2018) and The Venice Biennale (2011).