 BIO
Alexander R. Galloway is a writer and computer programer working on
issues in philosophy, technology, and theories of
mediation.
He is a
founding member of the
software collective RSG and
creator of the Carnivore
and Kriegspiel projects.
Currently
associate professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York
University, he is author or co-author of three books on media and
cultural theory, Protocol: How Control
Exists After Decentralization
(MIT, 2004), Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic
Culture (Minnesota, 2006),
The Exploit: A Theory of
Networks written with Eugene Thacker
(Minnesota, 2007). In 2010 he co-translated (with Jason E. Smith)
Introduction
to Civil War by the French group Tiqqun (Semiotext[e]). Recently,
the Public School New York published French Theory Today: An Introduction to Possible Futures,
a set of five pamphlets documenting Galloway's seminar conducted there in the fall of 2010.
Galloway has given over a hundred lectures both across the U.S. and in
ten countries around the world. His writings have been translated into German,
French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, and Polish. He is
recipient of a number of grants and awards including a
Creative Capital
grant (2006) and a Golden Nica in the 2002 Prix Ars Electronica (Linz,
Austria). The New York Times has described his
practice as
"conceptually sharp, visually compelling and completely attuned to the
political moment."
Galloway is currently working on two research projects. The first is an
archeology of computational media focusing on the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. The second is a new book on the aesthetics and politics
of information technology. In his future work he intends to focus more closely
on French philosophy and the continental tradition.
Ph.D., The Literature Program, Duke University, 2001
B.A., Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, 1996
Scholarly interests include: critical theory, semiotics, aesthetics,
continental philosophy, digital media, networks, software, new media
art, games, and film.
Affiliated faculty member of the NYU Department of Comparative Literature
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