Bogna Konior is a scholar and a writer whose work focuses on emerging technologies.
She is currently Assistant Professor of Media Theory at NYU Shanghai, where she works at the Artificial Intelligence & Culture Research Center, and the Interactive Media Arts department.
She is the author of Dark Forest Theory of the Internet, forthcoming in the Theory Redux Series from Polity Press in 2025. With Benjamin Bratton and Anna Greenspan, she is the co-editor of Machine Decision is Not Final: China and the History and Future of Artificial Intelligence, forthcoming from Urbanomic in 2025, and distributed by MIT Press.
In 2025, she was selected for the UN panel on AI and Culture, and is a mentor at the DATAS residency programme for artists working in the field of contemporary art, AI and sovereignty from the Central and Eastern European, and Southern Caucasian region.
In 2024, she was a mentor in the Synthetic Minds Lab at the Medialab Matadero and an affiliate researcher at the Antikythera think thank for speculative computation.
Her work on philosophy, history, and future of digital culture and technology has been presented internationally, including at the University of Cambridge Global AI Narratives Workshops, the Goethe Institute, e-flux, and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. She frequently collaborates with art institutions, including Ljubljana Biennale, Fundação de Serralves, Singapore Art Museum, ZKM Center for Art and Media @ Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Amsterdam Research Institute of the Arts and Sciences, and Maribor Computer Arts Festival.
@bognamk on apps; bogna@nyu.edu for work