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Rebecca Uliasz is a scholar and artist whose work centers on digital media, the history of science, and environmentalism and design. She received her Ph.D. in Computational Media, Arts & Cultures at Duke University in 2024 and MFA in New Media from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2017 and is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan. She is working on a manuscript that examines the relation between environmental computing, urban design, and enduring forms of colonial and imperial violence.
She is broadly interested in how 21st century technology, visual culture and aesthetics intersect with digital capitalism and how algorithms shape the way we interact with the world.
She is one half of the theory-noise performance group GOVERNANCE. Her work has appeared in locations such as The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory, Springer AI & Society: Special Issue, Ways of Machine Seeing, Review of Communication, Optimization: Towards a Critical Concept, JONMAS, APRJA and transmediale.