alexandra (sasha) anikina

researcher, organiser & artist / co-director https://criticalinfrastructures.net / associate professor in digital media & technocultures at U of Southampton

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short bio & contacts / jan 25
short bio & contacts / jan 25
[academic] staff profile
[artist] portfolio
[artist] portfolio
Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics
Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics
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[co-editor] University as Infrastructure / Special Issue of Culture Machine Vol. 25
[co-editor] University as Infrastructure / Special Issue of Culture Machine Vol. 25
[UKRI] SOUNDSCALE
[curated] IMPAKT Festival 2018 'Algorithmic Superstructures'
[curated] IMPAKT Festival 2018 'Algorithmic Superstructures'

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[chapter in] Post-Communist Grounds. In Search of the Commons (2025)
[chapter in] Post-Communist Grounds. In Search of the Commons (2025)
[paper] Spirit Tactics: (Techno)magic as Epistemic Practice in Media Arts and Resistant Tech (2023)
[paper] Things in the Background: Video Conferencing and the Labor of Being Seen (2023)
[paper] Procedural Animism The Trouble of Imagining a (Socialist) AI (2022)
[paper] Automating Platform Spectators: Algorithmic Montage and Affective Scroll in TikTok (2022)

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THE LYING BODY: ONLY THE FUTURES REVISIT THE PAST ALEXANDRA ANIKINA, RICCARDO BENASSI, MONIA BEN HAMOUDA, DOROTA GAWĘDA ANDEGLĖ KULBOKAITĖ, WALTER NIEDERMAYR, ELIZABETH A. POVINELLI. | PROGRAMME | AR/GE KUNST 2022
THE LYING BODY: ONLY THE FUTURES REVISIT THE PAST ALEXANDRA ANIKINA, RICCARDO BENASSI, MONIA BEN HAMOUDA, DOROTA GAWĘDA ANDEGLĖ KULBOKAITĖ, WALTER NIEDERMAYR, ELIZABETH A. POVINELLI. | PROGRAMME | AR/GE KUNST 2022
screensaverwatchingyou - off site project (2020)
'A better version of you' Art Sonje, Seoul, 2017
'mir: the village and the world' at Museum Centre 'Ploschad Mira' (2017)

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