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'''Joanna Zylinska''' is a writer, lecturer, artist and curator, working in the areas of new technologies and new media, ethics, photography and art. She is Professor of New Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London and author of five books - most recently, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=12746 Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene]'' (Open Humanities Press, 2014), ''Life after New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process'' (with Sarah Kember; MIT Press, 2012) and ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=217 Bioethics in the Age of New Media]'' (MIT Press, 2009). Her translation of Stanislaw Lem's philosophical treatise, ''Summa Technologiae'', came out from the University of Minnesota's Electronic Mediations series in 2013. Her own work has been translated into Chinese, French, German, Norwegian, Polish, Russian and Turkish.
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'''Joanna Zylinska''' is a writer, lecturer, artist and curator, working in the areas of digital technologies and new media, ethics, photography and art. She is Professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital Practice in the [https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh Department of Digital Humanities] at King's College London. She is also a member of [https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/creative-ai-lab/ Creative AI Lab], a collaboration between King's and Serpentine Galleries. Prior to joining King's in 2021, she worked for many years at Goldsmiths, University of London, including as Co-Head of its Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies. She has held visiting positions as Guest Professor at Shandong University in China, Winton Chair Visiting Scholar at the University of Minnesota, US, and Beaverbrook Visiting Scholar at McGill University in Canada.
  
Zylinska combines her philosophical writings with photographic art practice and curatorial work. In 2013 she was artistic director of Transitio_MX05 'Biomediations': Festival of New Media Art and Video in Mexico City. Together with [[Clare Birchall]], and [[Gary Hall]], she runs the JISC-funded project [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/ Living Books about Life], consisting of a series of 20+ co-edited, electronic open access books about life which provide a bridge between the humanities and the sciences. In 2014 she was Winton Chair Visiting Scholar at the University of Minnesota, while in 2011 she was Beaverbrook Visiting Scholar at McGill University in Canada.  
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Zylinska is the author of eight books - most recently, ''[http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/ai-art/ AI Art: Machine Visions and Warped Dreams]'' (Open Humanities Press, 2020, open access), ''[https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/the-end-of-man The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse]'' (University of Minnesota Press, 2018, open access) and ''[https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262037020/nonhuman-photography/ Nonhuman Photography]'' (MIT Press, 2017). Her work has been translated into Chinese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.
  
She is one of the editors of ''[http://www.culturemachine.net/ Culture Machine]'', an international open-access journal of culture and theory, and a curator of its sister project, [http://photomediationsmachine.net/ Photomediations Machine]. She has recently co-edited ''[http://photomediationsopenbook.net/ Photomediations: An Open Book]'' and ''[http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/photomediations/ Photomediations: A Reader]''. Her current projects involve photographing media entanglements, completing a book on nonhuman photography for the MIT Press [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/nonhuman-photography] and starting a new project on hydromedia.  
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Zylinska combines her philosophical writings with image-based art practice and curatorial work. In 2013 she was Artistic Director of Transitio_MX05 'Biomediations': Festival of New Media Art and Video in Mexico City. She has presented her work at many art and cultural institutions, e.g. Ars Electronica in Linz, CCCBarcelona, Centre Culturel International de Cerisy, Fotomuseum Winterthur, MMOMA in Moscow, Serpentine Galleries in London, SESC Sao Paolo and Transmediale in Berlin.
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She recently co-edited ''[http://photomediationsopenbook.net/ Photomediations: An Open Book and Photomediations: A Reader]'' as part of [http://www.europeana-space.eu/ Europeana Space], a grant funded by the European Union's ICT Policy Support Programme. She is currently researching perception and cognition as boundary zones between human and machine intelligence, while also trying to answer the question: 'Does photography have a future?'. Her book ''[https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/future-media The Future of Media]'', co-edited with Goldsmiths Media, came out in 2022 - and is also [https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/31658/ available on an open-access basis]. [http://www.joannazylinska.net/ (2022)]
  
 
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Joanna Zylinska is a writer, lecturer, artist and curator, working in the areas of digital technologies and new media, ethics, photography and art. She is Professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital Practice in the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London. She is also a member of Creative AI Lab, a collaboration between King's and Serpentine Galleries. Prior to joining King's in 2021, she worked for many years at Goldsmiths, University of London, including as Co-Head of its Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies. She has held visiting positions as Guest Professor at Shandong University in China, Winton Chair Visiting Scholar at the University of Minnesota, US, and Beaverbrook Visiting Scholar at McGill University in Canada.

Zylinska is the author of eight books - most recently, AI Art: Machine Visions and Warped Dreams (Open Humanities Press, 2020, open access), The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse (University of Minnesota Press, 2018, open access) and Nonhuman Photography (MIT Press, 2017). Her work has been translated into Chinese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.

Zylinska combines her philosophical writings with image-based art practice and curatorial work. In 2013 she was Artistic Director of Transitio_MX05 'Biomediations': Festival of New Media Art and Video in Mexico City. She has presented her work at many art and cultural institutions, e.g. Ars Electronica in Linz, CCCBarcelona, Centre Culturel International de Cerisy, Fotomuseum Winterthur, MMOMA in Moscow, Serpentine Galleries in London, SESC Sao Paolo and Transmediale in Berlin.

She recently co-edited Photomediations: An Open Book and Photomediations: A Reader as part of Europeana Space, a grant funded by the European Union's ICT Policy Support Programme. She is currently researching perception and cognition as boundary zones between human and machine intelligence, while also trying to answer the question: 'Does photography have a future?'. Her book The Future of Media, co-edited with Goldsmiths Media, came out in 2022 - and is also available on an open-access basis. (2022)

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