Andrew Robards is a video artist and media researcher whose work investigates the material, cultural, and technological dimensions of contemporary screen-based media. His practice spans experimental video, installation, and narrative filmmaking, engaging with digital materiality, post-human aesthetics, and the evolving relationship between humans and AI.
Robards has extensive experience in installation-based exhibition practice, often working with immersive and sculptural approaches to moving images and the screen as a material object. His work frequently incorporates looping structures, glitch processes, and hybrid analogue-digital techniques to explore memory, identity, and cinematic myth.
Based in regional New South Wales, Robards is deeply engaged with public programming, youth-led creative initiatives, and regional cultural development. His experience in regional community engagment has spanned, exhibition curation, delivery of public programs, facilitating workshops and developing community-led creative projects. He continues this work through ongoing collaborations in local and regional contexts.
Robards teaches Screen Arts and Digital Media at the University of Sydney and is currently undertaking a PhD at Sydney College of the Arts, where his research investigates digital screen materiality and the transformation of the moving image in the age of AI.