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.
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@hankg.bsky.social
@carolinesinders.bsky.social
Human rights centered design, art, and policy https://www.convocation.design/ New Orleans and London
@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
@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
@ericdienstfrey.bsky.social
Film/Media/Comm/Sound Studies @ UC & UA. Author of MAKING STEREO FIT https://www.ucpress.edu/books/making-stereo-fit/ Lover of Kiarostami, Rivette, Stephen King, and Taylor Swift. "The cinema has not yet been invented!" - Spinoza
@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/
@dfoerster.bsky.social
senior research associate @ UChicago. studies phenomenology of digital and environmental media. Book: https://meson.press/books/aesthetic-experience-of-metabolic-processes/ Web: https://dfoerster.org
@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
@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
@pualsuth.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Curtin University // visual culture, online extremism and post-truth
@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
@jonnyscholes.com
Making artwork about politics, abstraction, activism and futurism with equal parts code, paint, electronics and found objects. 📍 Nipaluna, Lutruwita, 'Australia' jonnyscholes.com
@dtemkin.bsky.social
Artist + esolanger, he/him I wrote the first artist’s monograph of programming languages, Forty-Four Esolangs. Will be released Sept 2025 with @mitpress.bsky.social : https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553087/forty-four-esolangs/
@ianingram.bsky.social
Artist/Roboticist/Animal. I build robots for animals and the landscapes and systems they live within. I also lead the Conservation Technology Lab at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. www.ianingram.org
@mactra.bsky.social
Sound scholar. Author. Host of Phantom Power, a podcast about sound: phantompod.org mactrasound.com
@netzerjulian.bsky.social
Media artist working on machine learning and pattern recognition teaching at berlin kunsthochschule weißensee https://juliannetzer.de/
@baricks.bsky.social
Researcher, technologist, artist. 🐚 Public interest tech at Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social. Prev: Head of Open Source Research @mozilla.org, Technologist / Fellow @hrw.org, engineering & art @ITP-NYU. she/her. 〰️
@menkman.bsky.social
Resolution theorist, licensed by the i.R.D. Professional Cycl👁ps researcher & 🌈 Rainbow hunter Thinking through resolutions, im/possible images, glitch… (she)
@janethmurray.bsky.social
Distinguished Professor of Digital Media, Georgia Tech, graduate of Bx Science HS, author "Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace" (MIT Press updated edition 2017) . Views are my own. Current book in progress:"Digital Delusions" .
@aliak.bsky.social
ex-system integration TV engineer/PM now studying machine learning coding + post-grad simulation & immersive tech. making art on extinction / speculative evolution -> specture. love books, art, music, ecology, landscape, tech, learning. making my own fun
@jmittell.bsky.social
Media studies professor at Middlebury College; video essayist & author of videographic book on Breaking Bad; author of written books on TV, narrative theory, etc.; journal manager of @intransition.bsky.social . [he/him] https://linktr.ee/jmittell
@danrosen.xyz
Scholar/researcher in digital media, STS, web platforms, and livestreaming. PhD/Annenberg Endowed Fellow @ USC Cinema & Media Studies (he/him) danrosen.xyz
@adriandaub.bsky.social
"Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history and gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). Podcasts: The Feminist Present, @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social. Newsletter at adriandaub.substack.com
@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)
@mbfazi.bsky.social
Philosophy, Computation, Technoscience. Associate Professor at the University of Sussex (UK). Author of “Contingent Computation” (2018). University page https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p378975-beatrice-fazi
@danbrownefilm.bsky.social
Filmmaker + multimedia artist | Facilitating interdisciplinary AI research @ University of Toronto | Comcult PhD | Parent | he/him
@mariosantamaria.bsky.social
Available 23/7 https://mariosantamaria.net https://internetour.com/
@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
@nathanjurgenson.com
author, The Social Photo (Verso) former: Real Life magazine, Theorizing the Web conference, Snap. currently: have no idea 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)
@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/
@patfio.bsky.social
writer, critic, and theorist; games and literature; lecturer in media arts and design at the university of chicago; he/him/his; www.patf.io
@jessicawranosky.bsky.social
Distinguished Professor of DH & History-Women, gender & sexuality hist &voting rights specialist. Auntie Maime, “Life is a banquet. Most poor suckers are starving to death.Live!Live!Live!” Posts are my own 1st Amendment. www.jessicabrannonwranosky.com
@lossless.bsky.social
Leo’s 아빠. Making things with computation. Interested in augmented reality. Posting about projects, movies, music. Living in Milan for now. He/him. XR works: https://lossless.mmm.page Mastodon: @lossless@mastodon.social
@davidcecchetto.bsky.social
Digital theory and sound studies prof (yorku); past pres SLSA; quasi-practicing (non)musician. -Co-edit Proximities book series (UMinn) -Author: Humanesis: Sound and Posthumanism (UMinn); Listening in the Afterlife of Data (Duke), and others
@therourke.net
the machine is the garden Goldsmiths based digital media theory art • currently researching AI slop and aphantasia • machinemachine.net
@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/
@rachelplotnick.bsky.social
Associate Prof, IU Media School. Hist of tech, interfaces, wearables, media tech and everyday life. Books: Power Button (MIT) bit.ly/2xMlmsr and License to Spill (MIT, out now!) https://shorturl.at/Yl1DP
@ghahahan.bsky.social
Stanford PhD candy thinking abt CG & AI through animation aesthetics; film critic on asian/diaspora cinema; GALECA secretary; 🍅 & 🍉 https://art.stanford.edu/people/grace-han 📍NYC
@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/
@mediapk.bsky.social
phd candidate @ ucsb film+media studies | working on race, recommendation + the subject
@scottrichmond.me
Director, Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto. Experimental media aesthetics, history of computing, theory and technology geekery of various kinds.
@yvettegranata.bsky.social
Assistant prof @ Uni of Michigan FTVM & Digital Studies Institute. Media Artist + Media Studies. Autonomous VR Art. Cyberfem XR. Weird Machines. New Animation. Theorizing Virtual Feminism. Witch Anarchy. I never update my website.. www.yvettegranata.com
@notsaved.bsky.social
technically, a sociologist | 哲♂学 | algorithms, vernaculars, creativity, synthesis | RTs ≠ RTs, Favs ≈ affect | unofficial account | "very good at bad sweaters" paranom.asia
@bernarddionysius.bsky.social
teacher, writer, curator media, cybernetics, HCI, environmental humanities, digital images, AI
@jonthomson.bsky.social
thomson & craighead: www.thomson-craighead.net / Making art in someone else's world. also @jonandali on IG and @jonandali@mastodon.scot
@chouxsalad.bsky.social
@dougeacho.bsky.social
performance historian in toronto. writing a book about automating theatre (surrealism, cybernetics, backstage tech, ai) in which i discover to much astonishment that it was capital all along. douglaseacho.com
@lunarbaedeker.bsky.social
rachel 鄭希汶 • duke lit phd student • interested in attention (studies) but not in that way • she/her
@rose-alibi.bsky.social
meat muppet, somehow dr., maintenance & repair & luddism, voluntarily de-convenienced. if i block it's because your profile reads like a bot. she/they/anything but he.
@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
@malahern.bsky.social
Collector of errors, glitches, and misprints. Researching 🤖 🎨 🏭 🎞️ 📽️ 📰 📺 and more. Professing at UW (Seattle)
@sarahbadr.bsky.social
technical artist, composer; informed by nature sarahbadr @ the other place — sarahbadr.com
@kellypendergrast.bsky.social
technology // aesthetics // labor // shapes writing: kellypendergrast.com working: antistaticpartners.com
@grayarea.org
Gray Area is a nonprofit applying creativity for positive social impact. 🔗 grayarea.org
@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.
@mediaarchaeology.bsky.social
past solutions for present problems since 2009 // resting on traditional territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations open house hours: post.lurk.org/@mediaarchaeologylab/109677062460615838 (account monitored by all lab staff)
@oliviastowell.bsky.social
theory bimbo, professional reality tv watcher tv/film editor @ Mid Theory Collective phd candidate studying television, race, gender, labor, and industry
@bowerbird.bsky.social
anti-hype. i paint and do computer vision research for scientific image datasets https://zhanpeifang.com/
@hzeavin.bsky.social
historian of mind & media I book: The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy I Founding Editor of @parapraxismag.bsky.social
@amygaeta.bsky.social
Research Associate at Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge. Thinking about drones, militarization, surveillance, AI ethics, gender, disability, & what it means to be human today She/They amygaeta.com
@melhogan.bsky.social
Critical media scholar interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot 😷🏳️🌈 🎙️ The Data Fix thedatafix.net 📝 Heliotrope heliotropejournal.net
@nickseaver.website
anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
@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
@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
Grimdark media, theory of the present, and critical tech, including AI. Better times: letterpress printing and tabletop gaming. Distinguished University Prof., U. of Maryland; speaking only for myself here though. Default content: cats. Pests: blocked.
@bildoperationen.bsky.social
Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture @digitalculturesandarts.ch https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
@loriemerson.net
media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, May 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
@molleindustria.org
Game maker, professor at Carnegie Mellon University. My employer has many, often contradicting, views. he/him
@daveparisi.bsky.social
Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1 Mostly reformed goth
@ibogost.bsky.social
Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Writer at The Atlantic. https://linktr.ee/ibogost
@mckenziewark.bsky.social
Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things. https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
@ckunzelman.bsky.social
critic | games | science fiction. Discussing culture on podcasts for Ranged Touch (Shelved By Genre | Just King Things | Game Studies Study Buddies). Used to write a lot. Growing things outdoors. Working on books: Assassin’s Creed and Magic: The Gathering.
@tamigraph.bsky.social
Climate/technology/labor/death researcher in Oakland. AI hater @datasociety.bsky.social I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/ Views mine www.tamarakneese.com
@hankg.bsky.social
phd from stanford in media theory. academic+industry researcher of digital technologies. ex robot operator. they/them. https://hankgerba.com