Joanna Zylinska
United Kingdom
www.joannazylinska.net
Joanna Zylinska is a writer, speaker, artist, and curator. She is Professor of New Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of six books, including Nonhuman Photography (MIT Press, 2017, forthcoming), Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene (Open Humanities Press, 2014, freely available electronic version), and Life after New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process Kember; MIT Press, 2012) – is also a translator of Stanislaw Lem's philosophical treatise, Summa Technologiae (Minnesota UP, 2013).
In 2013 she was Artistic Director of Transitio_MX05 'Biomediations', the biennial new media festival that takes place in Mexico City. His own artistic practice involves experimenting with different types of photomedia. He is also currently exploring the end of man, in all its tragicomic guises.