hank gerba
phd from stanford in media theory. academic+industry researcher of digital technologies. ex robot operator. they/them. https://hankgerba.com
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Digital Aesthetics
For those who see their practical and/or theoretical work as operating across these terms, as well as their overlap, all understood as capaciously as possible.
@rich-lem.bsky.social
Former Naughty Dog Lead Game Designer, now a professor in the USC Games program. Wrote 'A Playful Production Process' for the MIT Press. He/him.
@nwbaer.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of German, UC Berkeley | Book: Historical Turns (UC Press, 2024) | Edited Volumes: Technics (Amsterdam UP, 2024), Unwatchable (Rutgers UP, 2019), The Promise of Cinema (UC Press, 2016)
@cbrachtendorf.bsky.social
Fashion scholar with an interest in digital media. Lecturer @ Uni Paderborn, PhD candidate @ Uni Weimar, member of research training group media anthropology
@nataliastanusch.bsky.social
Researcher @AIForensics.org | Research Lead of Esoteric AI @aixdesign.bsky.social | PhD Candidate at ASCA, University of Amsterdam |
@ehrlemarken.bsky.social
Artist, publisher, screen printer at Longest Night in Gothenburg. Computational linguist, Human-AI interaction, mostly interested in #sloppyai longestnight.se
@jmakary.bsky.social
Filmmaker and PhD candidate @ Stanford. Avant-garde cinema, critical AI, and philosophy of perception.
@lillianmcintyre.com
PhD student at Yale University. Studying Japanese video games in the EALL department. イェール大学博士課程、ディジタルゲーム研究。🏳️🌈 lillianmcintyre.com
@archerporter.bsky.social
Scholar of performance in digital culture. Especially interested in body-centric media https://press.umich.edu/Books/H/Homebodies2 Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, UNL Linktree: https://linktr.ee/archerporter
@elisamekler.bsky.social
sullen assoc prof @itu.dk Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Games, Theory; ERC StG Theorycraft (2022 - 2027); I like weird games and JRPGs (header image: Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor)
@mutanttheorist.bsky.social
Lecturer of Media and Communications at the University of Sunderland. Researcher of Mutant Theory and monstrous bodies.
@mcdonabella.bsky.social
phd candidate @ umiami. teaching/writing disabled futures. she/her. t1d #insulin4all. 💉🤖
@ellaguro.bsky.social
she/her. musician, writer, podcaster, weird vidgame person http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro
@jbartashius.bsky.social
phd global studies. ecr. religion & film/gender/migration. pubs on stranger things/lady bird/fight club. bylines: @japantimes@kyotojournal@civilbeat @religiondispatches@deepkyoto https://independent.academia.edu/JBartashius
@lioracle.bsky.social
History Prof. (Israel/Palestine, Jewish history, Middle East), urbanist, map-lover, punster, ebike and public library enthusiast. Seattle, WA
@sonocculture.com
synthetic thought-dealer ~ ¦ GPT-333 ¦ the unheard ¦ public universal fiend ¦ sound studies : media philosophy : sound art history
@bennun.bsky.social
@adamegriff.bsky.social
- Curator, Queer Digital History Project (queerdigital.com) - Author, The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet (NYU Press, 2023) - Lecturer in WGSS @ Gonzaga University - Collects your old technology junk and cats.
@jordansjol.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. at DePauw University. Film & Media. Screenwriter. How to Blow Up a Pipeline.
@anna-madeleine.bsky.social
Multidisciplinary artist making work with/about the environment, satellites, technology. Lecturer at ANU Art & Design. 2024 Fulbright Scholar at USC Expanded Animation, LA. www.annamadeleine.com
@blueskychris.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Deakin University & 2025 Fulbright Scholar at University of Southern California Media Theory & STS - The Body in Error - Canguilhem/Foucault/Derrida/Hyppolite - Work and Automation - Face Recognition - Sensors - Etc
@saintsoftness.bsky.social
essayist + critic + art historian ⎔ book WE THE PARASITES (https://sublunaryeditions.com/products/we-the-parasites) ⎔ Critic in Residence at IDM-NYU ⎔ next book in 2028 from Seven Stories Press avmarraccini.com
@crprtanthrplgy.bsky.social
phd student @tu darmstadt, currently guest scholar @mpi legal history/theory texts mainly on aesthetics/politics/digital stuff/law
@djain.bsky.social
HCI Assistant Professor at UMich researching accessibility, audio AI, sound interaction, XR, and health. Director, Soundability Lab. Previously, Google, Apple, Microsoft, UW, and MIT Media Lab. https://dhruv-jain.com
@gua-le-ni.com
Professor at the University of Malta's @indigitalgames.bsky.social Migrant ☆ https://gua-le-ni.com/ WHAT WE OWE THE DEAD ⇒ https://www.setmargins.press/books/what-we-owe-the-dead/
@docmofo.bsky.social
Computational & experimental poet, teacher, curator, editor, researcher. Faculty at MIT & UiB. Lab/studio: The Trope Tank. Micropress: Bad Quarto
@carolinebeavon.com
Digital artist for hire (scrollytelling + more) Digital stories IRL feels. Crone. Queer. ADHD. Magpie. Into> misusing tools, narratives, AI chatbots, what is human, digital witchcraft http://www.carolinebeavon.com
@bethmsemel.bsky.social
AI killjoy, prednisone hater, writing a book about voice analysis AI and the limits of technosolutionist listening in American mental healthcare
@pualsuth.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Curtin University // visual culture, online extremism and post-truth
@tristan-dot.bsky.social
PhD candidate working on 19th century textile patterns ; grids, Jacquard machines, ornaments, textual/visual, digital/material
@asgushchina.bsky.social
PhD candidate at UCalgary, studying animated documentaries and the stuff they are made of she/her
@tintincooper.bsky.social
Artist working in ceramics, media, painting. Dissecting Memes+sport images. Currently making a shrine to football. Recent: Walker Art Center, Carnegie Art Museum, West Space Melbourne/Creative Australia Recipient
@carvalhais.org
Design, music, art + computation. Professor at fba.up.pt; also running @cronicaelectronica.org, http://at-c.org and @xCoAx.org. Author of Art and Computation (V2_) and Artificial Aesthetics (U.Porto). carvalhais.org
@mayameme.bsky.social
Feminist SocSci-Humanities scholar-practitioner in tech & AI. Associate Director & Senior Researcher: www.lcfi.ac.uk VLR-MAA-DEL-BOM-BLR-BER-CBG Outside cat; but more of a dog person really. bodyofwork.in
@johnpaulstadler.bsky.social
Area pervert and pie taster; gay; film and media scholar —> mostly queer and porn-centric research.
@digital.therourke.net
Articles, essays, papers, artworks and news stories on digital media, digital culture, and media arts - also mirrored at: criticaldigitalmedia.tumblr.com by @therourke.net (also see @additivism.org)
@jonnyscholes.com
Making artwork about politics, abstraction, activism and futurism with equal parts code, paint, electronics and found objects. 📍 Nipaluna, Lutruwita, 'Australia' jonnyscholes.com
@karindenson.bsky.social
Art, Glitches, Wildlife & Evie 🐾 Artist, painter, photographer, Special Ed, Language & Montessori teacher 🌎🌈💦🐦⬛🌱#glitch #AI karindenson.com
@jennblaylock.bsky.social
assistant professor of radio, television & film at rowan university | feminist & postcolonial african media histories | nyu miap | she/her
@atg-dbp.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Culture & Media @ The New School. Living at the crossroads of Media Theory, Black Horror / Zombie Movies, and AI / Digital Culture.
@aurelievpetit.bsky.social
PhD candidating @ Concordia // working on anime, gender & technology✨// prev Microsoft Research and AI+Society Initiative // current intern @uqam.ca on AI 🤖💋 // she/her // 📍MTL 🇨🇦 https://www.aurelie-petit.com
@richardsonma.bsky.social
Associate Professor. Drones, AI, war, culture, affect, witnessing. UNSW. Media Futures Hub. ADMS Centre. He/him. Nonhuman Witnessing with @dukepress.bsky.social https://t.ly/cQW5N
@veronikahanakova.bsky.social
AV essayist exploring New Media & Digital Culture ~ Media Archaeology ~ Researcher of gimmicky artifacts: from Star Wipe to my latest obsession the DVD ~ Member of Grassroots of Digital Europe ~ Curator for Marienbad Film Festival & Artycok.TV
@marthashearer.bsky.social
asst prof in film studies, university college dublin. film/tv + real estate since 2008 • nyc + hollywood musical • musicals at the margins • women and new hollywood. she/her https://letterboxd.com/pauseforthejet/ https://people.ucd.ie/martha.shearer/
@jameshodges.net
human scholar with phd (digital archives) • assistant professor in california (remote from new york) • www.jameshodges.net
@emilymbender.bsky.social
Book: https://thecon.ai Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender