The King’s powerhouse in Digital Humanities is going from strength to strength, and we are delighted to welcome Joanna Zylinska (whose expertise spans digital technologies, new media, art, ethics and photography) as Professor of Media Philosophy and Critical Digital Practice. Her appointment cements DDH as a world-leading centre for the study of the contemporary Digital Humanities.
Professor Marion Thain, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
22 September 2021
King's appoints new Professor of Media Philosophy and Critical Digital Practice in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Joanna Zylinska has been appointed as Professor of Media Philosophy and Critical Digital Practice in the Department of Digital Humanities.
Professor Zylinska is a writer, lecturer, artist and curator, working in the areas of digital technologies and new media, ethics, photography and art. Prior to joining King's in 2021, she worked for many years at Goldsmiths, University of London, including as Co-Head of its Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies. She has held visiting positions as Guest Professor at Shandong University in China, Winton Chair Visiting Scholar at the University of Minnesota, US, and Beaverbrook Visiting Scholar at McGill University in Canada
Zylinska is the author of eight books - most recently, AI Art: Machine Visions and Warped Dreams (Open Humanities Press, 2020, open access), The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse (University of Minnesota Press, 2018, open access) and Nonhuman Photography (MIT Press, 2017). Her work has been translated into Chinese, French, German, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.
I am delighted to welcome Joanna to DDH. She brings a distinguished record of scholarship and academic leadership in digital arts, AI and new media which will expand and enrich the Department across our research, our teaching programmes and our service to society and London. We are thrilled that she has joined us
Professor Stuart Dunn, Head of the Department of Digital Humanities
Zylinska combines her philosophical writings with image-based art practice and curatorial work. In 2013 she was Artistic Director of Transitio_MX05 'Biomediations': Festival of New Media Art and Video in Mexico City.
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