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Martin John Callanan, (born 1982, Birmingham) is an European artist and academic working with digital media, audio, installation, and video.

Martin John Callanan obtained degrees from Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD) and University College London.

Callanan is currently part-time Teaching Fellow in Fine Art Media at the Slade School of Art, and Artist in Residence at UCL Environment Institute.

Callanan's animation and photographic works have been screened at the 30th Moscow Film Festival,  7th Seoul Film Festival , 9th International Festival for New Media Culture , and Ginza Art Laboratory , Radio Tower Xchange (RTX) , NOMUSIC Festival X , Paraflows 06 Vienna.

Commissions include the Riga Centre for New Media Culture  and a book for Book Works   , London; Velocity Festival, Lancaster as part of the Big Draw ,  Publications are international  and held by Rhizome ArtBase, New Museum of Contemporary Art. The colour grey and its symbolism plays a significant role in Callanan's work; "his work is always decidedly deadpan and served with a dash of ennui".

His work explores artistic issues of systems, governance and mobile, locative media. It is displayed and screened in public, gallery and online spaces.