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Dr Armelle Skatulski

  • Position: Lecturer in Digital Media
  • Areas of expertise: Critical digital media practice; computational arts; lens-based art; photography; networked technologies; archival research; practice-led research; cultural studies; critical AI studies.
  • Email: A.M.Skatulski@leeds.ac.uk
  • Location: Clothworkers' Building North

Profile

Armelle Skatulski is an artist and researcher working across lens-based and computational arts. She is a Lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Leeds and a Visiting Scholar at Nottingham Trent University, School of Art & Design. She completed a practice-led PhD in Arts & Humanities at the Royal College of Art in London funded by an AHRC Scholarship (2023) and was recently awarded a National Lottery Project Grant from Arts Council England for her project Geomapping Generative AI (2026). Armelle has showcased her practice and research at the Slade School of Fine Art UCL, Falmouth University and the Nottingham School of Art & Design as a Visiting Artist. She has worked as a Visiting Lecturer in the UK and abroad for arts institutions such as the Royal College of Art, the Whitechapel Gallery, PhotoMuseum Ireland, and The National College of Art & Design Ireland. As a researcher, she has worked for various charities and research labs internationally (Reset.tech Australia; The UWA Tech & Policy Lab, University of Western Australia; and the Autonomy Institute, UK) to support public interest research campaigns centred on the datafication of work, the personal data economy, and digital rights advocacy. As an artist, Armelle has exhibited her work in the UK and abroad - including at: the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Dublin, Ireland; the Royal College of Art Research Biennale; PhotoFrome ; NAFAE; Southwark Park Galleries, London, UK; and PhotoIreland. Her writing was recently commissioned and published by Arts Cabinet.

Research interests

  • AI Infrastructures and the environment
  • The networked image and generative AI
  • Networked technologies and digital extractivisim
  • Expanded screen practice
  • Photography, archives and power
  • Photography, networked images and power
  • Virtual cinematics

Qualifications

  • PhD Arts & Humanities (Practice-led), AHRC/Techne DTP, Royal College of Art.
  • MA Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
  • BA (Hons) Photography, School of Media, TU Dublin.

Student education

I teach at undergraduate and postgraduate level, supervising third year digital media projects at BA level and leading workshops in digital media practice on the MA Digital Media.

  • COMM1730 Interface Design

  • COMM3705 Digital Media Projects

  • COMM5780M Digital Practices