Salutations! I am Ted Nannicelli, an academic based at The University of Queensland (UQ) in beautiful Brisbane, Australia. Previously, I held an appointment at The University of Waikato in Aotearoa/New Zealand. I am former editor of Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind and a fellow of The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image, with which it is affiliated. I thought about putting a photograph of myself above this text, but I reckon you're better off looking at a picture of the beach.
I am interested in aesthetics and philosophical questions about the arts. Recent topics of interest include the nature of artistic agency and ethical criticism of art and artists. One current project is a special issue of The Polish Journal of Aesthetics on AI, art, and ethics, for which submissions are open until 31 August 2026. Another is the Mind, Art, Knowledge symposium scheduled to occur in Brussels 15-17 June 2026. The call for papers is here.
My 2026 New Year's resolution is to decline invitations to peer review for journals published by Elsevier, SAGE, Springer Nature, Taylor and Francis, and Wiley. This is why.
You can find information about my publications and copies of some papers here. You can reach me at <t.nannicelli[at]uq.edu.au> if you would like a copy of a paper that I haven't figured out how to upload or for anything else, really.. . but invitations to seaside/beachside locations are especially welcome and will be answered sooner.