Martin Disley is a design researcher with a critical engineering studio practice working in software, film, installation and text. His AHRC and Microsoft-funded PhD research explores how adversarial computing and investigative aesthetics might contribute to the interpretation and evaluation of generative computer vision applications. He is the co-founder, alongside Murad Khan, of Unit Test, a collaborative creative research studio that assembles researchers, engineers, and artists to explore aesthetic approaches to investigative computation.

He has presented and exhibited work at arebyte Gallery (online/London, UK), Akademie der Künste (Berlin, DE), Fabrica (Treviso, IT), Edinburgh Art Festival (Edinburgh, UK), Unsound Festival (Krakow, PL), the V&A Museum (Dundee, UK), the Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow, UK), Architekturforum Oberösterreich (Linz, AT), and Kunstencentrum Vooruit (Ghent, BE).

He is an affiliate of the Centre for Technomoral Futures and a Training Fellow at the Centre for Data, Culture and Society at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.