Teaching and Research



Overview of my Academic Teaching and my Practice of Analysis and Consultancy

Wheaton Institute for the Interdisciplinary Humanities (WIIH)

AI Humanities

As director of the WIIH I develop an AI Humanities program. The aim is to revisit and reclaim artificial intelligence as an endeavour of the humanities, deeply philosophical, artistic and creative, a project for the liberal arts.


Courses:

Creative Industries

Creativity has long been seen as a pinacle of actualizing our potential as human beings. Over the last 25 years, creative industries, closely entangled with digital technologies, have risen to a key part of economic value creation. In this course we will look at this development, critically assess ideas and assumptions behind the concepts of creativity and the construction of creative industries, and explore the economic reality of creative businesses. Alongside introducing to ‘creative industries’ as an area of academic study, the course features experiments in creative expression in various technologies in practical exercises.

Future Punk

Speculative fiction, strategy planning, future studies: We work our way through the field of futurism and use its methods as our creative tool.

NYU Abu Dhabi Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020

Politics of Code

Deconstructing the design and implementation of software as a political medium and re-building functional alternatives.

NYU, New York, Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Politics of Code Cryptoparty, Spring 2020, and lecture Spring 2021
NYU Abu Dhabi Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020

AI Introduction

This block seminar gives a short introduction to machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI): The theory, philosophy, and first code examples for the most common neural network models and applications in generative AI.

NYU, New York, Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2020, and lecture Spring 2021
NYU Abu Dhabi Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020

Information and Communication Technologies

From the earliest alphabets to our current interactive media: History and critical theory of technologically mediated communication.

Wheaton College, Norton, MA., Spring 2024, Fall 2024
NYU Abu Dhabi Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020

Media Audiences

Looking at the recipients of media, audience theory, the cultural industry, taste, fandom, propaganda, and conducting empirical audience research.

Wheaton College, Norton, MA., Spring 2024

Media Law and Ethics

Introduction to ethics and law for digital media professionals.

Wheaton College, Norton, MA., Fall 2024

Understanding Interactive Media

Digital media as art, activism, and part of culture.

Wheaton College, Norton, MA., Fall 2024

Nature of Code aka Decoding Nature

Capturing and modelling complexity in code: Laws of motion, complex systems, generative art.

NYU Abu Dhabi Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019

Blockchain Fiction

“Blockchain is the new Internet” (or not).

NYU, New York, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017


Analysis and Consultancy

Future of Democratic Governance and Participation with Digital Technology

Trustless communication

Peer-to-peer communication based on privacy preserving computation and federated learning.

Slow Media and the future of journalism, media, and social networks