Gwynne Fulton

Gwynne Fulton is an image theorist and practitioner based in Tio'tia:ke (Montréal), in Kanien'kehá:ka territory. She holds an MFA in Cinema and is currently a PhD Candidate in Political Philosophy and Visual Cultures at Concordia University.

Her work examines the global circulation of images and their role in the formation of visual economies of power and sovereignty under contemporary necropolitics. Engaging recent theories of the image as well as poststructural and critical race theories, her doctoral research examines the imbrication of operative images in drone warfare, bystander recordings of extrajudicial police killings, and death penalty photography to address questions of violence, witnessing, spectatorship, and modes of resistance.

Fulton is a member of the Post-Image Lab at Milieux Institute and a member of the Board of Directors at Dazibao, in Montreal. In 2016-2017, she was a Visiting Doctoral Researcher at Villanova University in Philadelphia. As a Curatorial and Research Fellow at Slought Foundation, she assisted with the development of Slought's Mediatheque space and co-organized screenings about the carceral state, the geopolitics of oceans, and trajectories of illegalized migration in the Black Mediterranean. She is currently conducting research in Bogotá, Colombia.