Hossein Eyalati

Hossein Eyalati is a PhD researcher in Creative Arts and Media at Goldsmiths, University of London, funded by the Stuart Hall Foundation CHASE AHRC studentship. His research lies at the intersection of political aesthetics, visual culture, and media studies. Alongside his academic work, he is a producer and director at the BBC, where since 2018 he has created documentaries and features on global art and culture. He is also co-founder and director of the Kaarnamaa Institute of Art and Visual Culture, an independent non-profit organisation established in 2009 and dedicated to research, education, and publishing in modern and contemporary art.

His doctoral research investigates the political life of digital images in contexts of protest and censorship, analysing how they are produced, mediated, circulated, and preserved in online spaces. He is particularly interested in how protest imagery functions not only as documentation but also as an active political agent. His work employs open-source intelligence, archival methods, and media analysis to examine visual records. His wider interests include systems theory and surveillance studies, which inform his approach to digital media and its infrastructures.