Rate My Professor Andrew Meares

Professor Andrew Meares is the lead of the Cybernetic Futures group in the ANU School of Cybernetics at the Australian National University. A Walkley award-winning photojournalist, he worked at The Sydney Morning Herald for almost three decades from 1991 to 2017, where his work involved the creation, curation, and circulation of images during the transition from darkroom to digital and from print to social media. He covered politics, protests, portraits, bushfires, coups, and war zones. Meares served as president of the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery from 2015 to 2017 and as a senior adviser to the Leader of the Opposition from 2017 to 2019.

Meares joined the Australian National University in 2019. Since then, he has served as a master course convenor, master program convenor, education experience lead, and design lead. He was the lead curator of the exhibition Australian Cybernetic: A Point Through Time in 2022 and lead author of the accompanying exhibition book published in 2024. Meares leads cybernetic research and education experiences focused on cybernetic futures and the Cybernetic Imagination residency program. He is also a co-investigator on an ongoing research project examining telegraphy as Australia’s first digital system, including work on the Overland Telegraph Line. His contributions include co-authored publications on topics such as circulatory infrastructure, cybernetics, and 19th-century communication technologies in Australia. Meares has received Walkley Awards, including a win for best online journalism in 2010, and has been part of a team awarded the Transdisciplinary Teaching Award.