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Rebecca Uliasz is an artist and PhD Candidate in the department of Computational Media, Arts and Cultures at Duke University. Her work brings together digital culture and the philosophy and history of technology to think about how technological change relates to political atmosphere and affect.
Her disseration project, “Epistemologies of the Unknown: Digital Cultures after the Cold War,” looks at political aesthetics of algorithms in computing culture in relation to de-Westernization, digitization, and finance capital through the lens of the literary humanities, new media culture, and the history and philosophy of cybernetic ecosystems. Her additional reserach interests include cybernetics, media ecology, new media aesthetics, post-humanisms, and transdiscplinarity in the humanities and arts.
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.