Olga Goriunova is a cultural theorist and a professor in the Media Arts Department at Royal Holloway, University of London. In the 2000s, she curated Readme software art festivals (Moscow 2002, Helsinki 2003, Aarhus 2004, Dortmund 2005), co-organized the software art repository Runme.org and an international exhibition Funware that was first shown in Arnolfini gallery in Bristol. In her interdisciplinary research she draws on theories of computation, art and literature as well as philosophy. She is interested in the processes of subjectivation in relation to technology and aesthetics but also in thinking beyond the human, in terms of posthuman ecologies. My earlier work in media art is linked to my newest interests in the digital abstractions of the subject through an interest in what happens to the human – gendered and racialized – in networked cultures.
