Networked Image Cultures
Scholars and artists working on digital visual cultures, post-, networked and computational photography, generative media and synthetic images, memes, platform and internet aesthetics from a historical and theoretical perspective
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@bildoperationen.bsky.social
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
DIZH bridge professorship University of Zurich Zurich University of the Arts
@jrosenbaum.com.au
Artist and researcher working with AI perceptions of gender. PhD, nerd, muso, they/them pronouns 🏳️⚧️🇦🇺 links page at minxdragon.com
@hotelamnesia.bsky.social
Photographer, writer, drinker of Japanese green tea (not always in that order) "I just left the Hotel Amnesia, I had to go there Where it is I can't remember"
@sedserio.com
Canadian Artist & Experimental Poet- I am a recipient of Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for my contributions in Art. Treaty 1 #sedserio #QuantumPoetry #NetArt #GlitchArt https://sedserio.com 🇨🇦
@pualsuth.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Curtin University // visual culture, online extremism and post-truth
@geraldsim.bsky.social
Neo-Luddite | Author, Screening Big Data | 🟦 Devils ⬛️🟨 Hawks 🟥 YNWA | Prof, Film & Media Studies https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/scms/faculty/sim/
@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)
@kradke.bsky.social
European Journal Current Affairs | Media | Arts Diary 4/2025 Do not despise anyone's sensitivity. Sensitivity is the genius of each one of us. — Charles Pierre Baudelaire 📷 https://www.flashes.blue/profile/kradke.bsky.social
@revolusarli.bsky.social
Sociologist of STS, also a lawyer, and a comic strip artist. Father of two. Brazilian, living in Indonesia
@jonnyscholes.com
Making artwork about politics, abstraction, activism and futurism with equal parts code, paint, electronics and found objects. 📍 Nipaluna, Lutruwita, 'Australia' jonnyscholes.com
@jessicaringrose.bsky.social
Prof University College London, UK. Canadian Feminist Sociologist studying youth, social media, digital activism, tech facilitated gender based violence and educational interventions New book out 2025: Teens, Social Media, & Image Based Abuse
@tomdivon.bsky.social
Social Media Explorer 🦆 PhDing; Communication; HebrewU Founding Member @weareccsn.bsky.social 🤳🏽 Content Creators 🧲 Audiovisual Memes 🧨 Algos and Hate 📵 Tech Appropriation 👩🏽🎤 TikTok Cultures
@somabasu.com
Journalist turned researcher, teacher, fact-checker. 📚 Affect, digital politics, violence, imaginations, & pervasive game cultures. 🛠️ (Sensory) Ethnography, CDA-DHA, PAR PhDing: Tampere Uni 🇫🇮 Project: Muslims in India (Columbia, Princeton, Science Po)
@alexhanna.bsky.social
Director of Research, DAIR Roller derby athlete https://alex-hanna.com Book: thecon.ai Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k 🇪🇬⚧ She/هي 📸 @willtoft.bsky.social Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
@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
@kaarinan.bsky.social
Professor of Media and Communication Research Tampere University I write about datafication and social justice, emotions, affect & traces of humanity in the digital world. Also on migration, hate and the far-right. Book: Media Solidarities (SAGE 2019)
@annettemarkham.bsky.social
Social researcher focused on AI futures literacies, data/digital disruptions, algorithmic identity, human machine communication. Chair Professor at Utrecht University A bit obsessed about methodology More at https://annettemarkham.com
@kattiid.bsky.social
social media researcher (esp visuality, sex, small p-politics, wellbeing) professor at Tallinn University, BFM in 🇪🇪, currently working on TRAVIS project on trust and visuality. https://katrin-tiidenberg.com/
@verlook.bsky.social
Visual studies / photography / media anthropology Co-author of Visual Studies (Routledge, 2015) *Visual Studies Lab / **co-org Helsinki Photomedia
@ddzeeuw.bsky.social
'Same old same old, just now we have smartphones' Ass. Prof. Digital Media Culture, University of Amsterdam Writing a book tentatively called "Rules of Engagement: Rethinking Information in the Age of Influence"
@clockworkpenguin1.bsky.social
creative tech maker + thinker, genAI, screencultures, altcomputing. senior lecturer, media @ RMIT; assoc investigator @ADM+S
@mariosantamaria.bsky.social
Available 23/7 https://mariosantamaria.net https://internetour.com/
@beckfni.bsky.social
Medienwissenschaft, -philosophie & -anthropologie am GRAMA @Bauhaus-Universität Weimar; aktuell: Augmented Reality. Ansonsten: Kappes. Berlin | Weimar
@thaophan.bsky.social
Feminist STS, gender, race, algorithmic culture // Lecturer in Sociology (STS) at Australian National University// Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country
@aphid.org
net artist, garden pest scraper/scholar of media, metadata, oversight &counterintelligibility i teach "new" media histories, theories, and practices at uc santa cruz they/he
@joannazylinska.bsky.social
Media philosopher, artist, writer Prof @ King's College London, Digital Humanities www.joannazylinska.net AI : nonhuman photography : life in the perception machine : media art : ethics : counter-apocalypse : imagining better futures
@digitalculturekcl.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary research centre promoting research and public engagement with digital culture. Based at King's College London.
@jwyg.bsky.social
🐨 https://jonathangray.org/ 🌱 director @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social + reader @kingsdh.bsky.social king's college london + cofounder @publicdatalab.bsky.social 🫧 feminist STS, data studies, digital methods, internet studies, poetic computation
@shanedenson.bsky.social
Media theorist | Stanford Art & Art History | Modern Thought & Literature | shanedenson.com | Author: Postnaturalism (https://tinyurl.com/3pxpatav); Discorrelated Images (https://tinyurl.com/44mp6kxy); & Post-Cinematic Bodies (https://tinyurl.com/mr2u5spk)
@feedgruber.bsky.social
Art historian, researching the politics of digitization in museums book (Sept 2025): Museen und die Utopie der Vernetzung blog: https://nullmuseum.hypotheses.org/ mastodon: https://hcommons.social/@nullmuseum ♥🅵🅴🅳🅸🆅🅴🆁🆂🅴♥
@steffensiegel.bsky.social
Optimistic Berliner • Professor for the Theory and History of Photography at Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen • Chairman of the Essen Center for Photography
@jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social
Media theory, art history professor Books: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517912543/endless-intervals/ https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517902261/elements-of-a-philosophy-of-technology/ Surplus data: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ci/2022/48/
@danbrownefilm.bsky.social
Filmmaker + multimedia artist | Facilitating interdisciplinary AI research @ University of Toronto | Comcult PhD | Parent | he/him
@therourke.net
the machine is the garden Goldsmiths based digital media theory art • currently researching AI slop and aphantasia • machinemachine.net
@mgarrett.bsky.social
I have two books out this year: Feral Class & Furtherfield: 30 Years of Art, Technology, & Eco-social Change. Researcher in Post-digital Culture, academic, artist, writer, curator, activist, techie, PhD co-founder @furtherfield.bsky.social :-)
@esarahcook.bsky.social
Curator professor media art AI art science art museums curators clocks calendars cats cakes etc.
@juliefreeman.bsky.social
Artist using data and sound as materials and inspiration. @shapedsound.bsky.social | translatingnature.org
@cgwtf.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 PhD achievement unlocked! | Video Essayist, Artist, Educator in CG AI VR XR VFX ML 🔮 Future art histories | 🔴🟢🔵 Multi-modal synthetic imaging | alanwarburton.co.uk
@hannahredlerhawes.bsky.social
Independent Curator / Museum bod. Own views. Specialising in Contemporary and Interdisciplinary Arts (Digital / Media Art; Art + Science, Data, AI) Director, Data as Culture at Open Data Institute (Associate) Curator Oxford Cultural Programme (External)
@maxbonhomme.bsky.social
Associate professor (MCF) at Université de Strasbourg, teaching design history and visual culture Research on photomontage, graphic design history, AI-generated images, popular print culture, etc. Part of the team at https://transbordeur.ch/
@whkchun.bsky.social
new media theorist and professor. director of the SFU digital democracies institute. posts reflect my own views only. banner from Mongrel Network's 2004 Bush-Blair project. Portrait by a wonderful scms audience member—let me know if you know them!
@eugeniaunivie.bsky.social
Postdoc fellow & visiting professor in philosophy of media & technology / University of Vienna / Prague University of Business and Economics / Technical University Cottbus / eugeniastamboliev.com
@boesch.bsky.social
Phding on postdigital propaganda. Free newsletter http://understanding-tiktok.com 🦑 http://marcus-boesch.de (he/him)
@johanm.bsky.social
PhD Student @ CornellCIS Founder, https://mutua.nyc Partner, https://zangsmicha.love Studio, https://michalove.studio Substack: https://thelastwave.substack.com/ About: https://micha.love
@mckenziewark.bsky.social
Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things. https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
@wesleygoatley.bsky.social
Critical artist + researcher. Analysing AI's impact on climate, art, and technopolitics. PhD in critical tech & art. Programme Director of Interaction Design and Visual Communication at University of the Arts London. http://lnk.bio/wesleygoatley
@serife.bsky.social
Artist investigating AI, power, and belief at IcarusSalon.com, on boards of Gray Area & Tech Inquiry, affiliate of ORCAA & Kidd Lab UC Berkeley. Educating via ArtificialLifeCoach.com on Insta and Tiktok.
@bilderebbe.bsky.social
@tega.bsky.social
Artist, enviro engineer & prof of Design & Media at New York University - https://tegabrain.com/
@lukasrawilde.bsky.social
Media Studies, Comic Studies, Visual Semiotics - NTNU Trondheim
@hughmacabre.bsky.social
Fulltime academic (TU Dublin, media/technology stuff). Sometime musician (M Stevens & The Ghasts, learning jazz, gimme indie rock). Oddtime artist (weird and not-so-weird photography). Temporarily living in Spain.
@larspinkwart.com
Researcher @digitalculturesandarts.ch Zurich University of the Arts & University of Zurich https://larspinkwart.com/
@alasdairking.bsky.social
Reader in Film @qmul.ac.uk Tracking finance capital and cybernetics across contemporary film and post-cinematic art. New Book: The Financial Image: Finance, Philosophy, and Contemporary Film (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics)
@nataliialaba.com
asst.-prof. in digital & multimodal communication / humane AI @unigroningen.bsky.social | genAI at the intersections of critical data studies & discourse studies ✨| SECR of the #ICA Visual Comm Division | https://nataliialaba.com
@ashleyscarlett.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the Alberta University of the Arts researching/writing about intersections between art and algorithmic culture.
@tedunderwood.me
Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学 Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). Pluviophile.
@albertocairo.com
Designer, journalist, and professor. Author of 'The Art of Insight' (2023) 'How Charts Lie' (2019), 'The Truthful Art' (2016), and 'The Functional Art' (2012). NEW PROJECT: https://openvisualizationacademy.org/
@quinnanya.me
Multilingual digital humanities, founder of the Textile Makerspace at Stanford & the Data-Sitters Club, teaches data visualization with textiles. SUCHO 🇺🇦 co-founder, archiving at-risk cultural heritage. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Signal: quinnanya.823
@neous.bsky.social
@neous since 2003. #Multimodality researcher at Uni Groningen. Chief Editor of Visual Communication. Mum of three.
@tjthomson.bsky.social
🇦🇺🇺🇸🤓 Academic (RMIT/ADM+S) 👀🖼️🤳 Researches visual communication & digital media ✍️📃🌏 Edits Visual Communication Quarterly and is secretary of the ICA Visual Communication Studies Division 🔗 Online elsewhere at: https://linktr.ee/tjthomson
@smwark.bsky.social
Lecturer in Visual Cultures @ Goldsmiths, UoL // perpetually unenthused
@nilspooker.bsky.social
Künstler/Artist. Kunst, Fotografie, Bildgedöns allgemein. *1965, Kiel/Germany. He/him. Website: http://nils-pooker.de Instagram: http://instagram.com/pookernils/ Impressum: https://www.nils-pooker.de/about/
@emilstjernholm.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Media and Communication Studies, Lund University. Interested in media history, propaganda and digital humanities.
@machineagency.bsky.social
Artist Teaching at University of Porto (FEUP) PhD in Digital Design Author: Algorithm, Image, Art, 2024 https://rosemary-lee.com/algorithm-image-art
@dylanschenker.com
📍Montreal || PhDing @ Concordia || Former Barista || Deleuze, Synthetic Media, AI, Sex, &c. || He/Him || cute accelerationism + xenofeminism
@richardacarter.bsky.social
Academic in Digital Culture, University of York, UK. Exploring digital art, literature, and storytelling; ecology, materiality, and the more-than-human. Glider pilot. https://richardacarter.com/
@nolauren.bsky.social
DH Prof @URichmond. Exploring computer vision and visual culture. Ideas for the Association for Computers & the Humanities @ach.bsky.social and Computational Humanities Research Journal? Please share!
@bengrosser.bsky.social
Artist, recomposing social platforms, AI futures, and interface cultures. Known for works like Demetricator, Computers Watching Movies, and minus.social. Faculty Associate @ Berkman Klein Harvard, Prof @ UIUC. bengrosser.com
@juliafaisst.bsky.social
Prof American Studies & the Media @TU Dortmund - 20/21C lit&visual culture, photography, home/space, race, child/migration, intersectionality, ecocrit - feminist mama, forest lover, failed artist
@mezbreeze.bsky.social
An OG digital artist/writer. Creates in Mezangelle: http://anthology.rhizome.org/mez-breeze. Permaculturalist. Narrative Designer + Developer. Blurrings + imaginings: https://www.patreon.com/mezbreeze + https://mezbreeze.itch.io/
@wasielewski.bsky.social
Art/media/urban histories | digital humanities & AI | Latest books: Computational Formalism: Art History & Machine Learning, Critical Digital Art History
@profgillian.bsky.social
digital things, visual culture, cities, visual research methods. And sometimes academic life. Prof of Human Geography at the University of Oxford. I still blog, occasionally, here: https://visualmethodculture.wordpress.com/
@nathanjurgenson.com
author, The Social Photo (Verso) former Snap; former Real Life magazine; former/future Theorizing the Web conference los angeles
@nannathylstrup.bsky.social
Associate Prof @ University of Copenhagen. Author of: "The Politics of Mass Digitization" (MIT Press), editor of "Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data" (MIT Press) and "(W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art" (Sternberg)
@matthiasgrund.bsky.social
Associate Researcher @KITeGG: Artificial Intelligence in Design, KISD, TH Köln www.matthiasgrund.com
@miraanneli.bsky.social
art historian | photography theorist | art critic Research on Images of Surveillance in Contemporary Art (PhD); Culture of Remembrence; Antisemitism in Art @frankfurtuas & @fotofolkwang.bsky.social
@ranjodhdhaliwal.com
Critical Media Theory + Science and Technology Studies + Literature + CS. Associate Prof. of DH, AI, and Media somewhere. VP, @litsciarts.org 📚: Computation, Political Economy, Infrastructures, History, Games, Design, SF. ☭. Not a professional account.
@tillheilmann.bsky.social
Doing #MediaStudies at RuhrUniBochum as part of CRC Virtual Lifeworlds | Book project on #Photoshop and #ImageProcessing | #Culture, #History and #Theory of #Digitality
@schalkewins.bsky.social
researching the photobook & history/theory of photography as an art historian & permanent research fellow at @kwi-essen.bsky.social. whistling at the gap between reading & writing. https://linktr.ee/schalkewins
@eryk.bsky.social
Situationist Cybernetics, Artist/Researcher, anti-AI AI artist. Aim to be kind. Researcher, AI Pedagogies, metaLab (at) Harvard University; Visiting Prof. in Humanities, Computing & Design @ Rochester Institute of Technology. cyberneticforests.com
@hankg.bsky.social
phd from stanford in media theory. academic+industry researcher of digital technologies. ex robot operator. they/them. https://hankgerba.com
@shannonmattern.bsky.social
director of creative research @ the metro ny library council; professor @ a 🫣 conglomerate (2004-22: @thenewschool) architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++ nyc + philly wordsinspace.net
@christinavollmert.bsky.social
Vertretung der Jun. Prof. Kunst_Medien_Bildung & Koordinatorin des Intermedia-Studiengangs der Uni Köln. Forscht und lehrt and den Schnittstellen von Medien-, Kunst-, Theater- und Technikgeschichte des 19. Jhds. sowie im Bereich digitaler Bildkulturen.
@michellehenning.bsky.social
Prof at Uni of Liverpool and artist. I write on photography, media, museums, ISOTYPE, modernism, environment & atmosphere. Photography: The Unfettered Image (2018) & A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog & Empire, Chicago UP (Fall 2025)
@bernarddionysius.bsky.social
teacher, writer, curator media, cybernetics, HCI, environmental humanities, digital images, AI
@jacobgaboury.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Film & Media, UC Berkeley (he/him) Media History | STS | Queer Theory | Digital Visual Culture Book: Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics (2021) Now: Screenshot Histories & Queer Computing https://jacobgaboury.com
@jbirken.bsky.social
Futures historian & media archaeologist @ Uni Köln ~ er || they ~ writes in EN & DE ~ http://www.jacob-birken.de ~ GLHF (◔◡◔✿)
@bildoperationen.bsky.social
Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture @digitalculturesandarts.ch https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen