About
Alexandra (Sasha) Anikina is a media theorist and artist. She is Associate Professor in Digital Media and Technocultures at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Her work focuses on decolonial tech imaginaries, affective infrastructures, feminist STS and technological conditions of knowledge production, governance, labour and affect. She writes on on a variety of audiovisual media and digital artefacts, including experimental film, social media algorithmic recommendation systems, games, screensavers and contemporary art. She is Co-Director of Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics research group and Programme Co-Lead for MA Digital Media at the department of Art and Media Technology in Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Her up-to-date publications can be found here.
As an artist, she works with film, digital media, embroidery and lecture-performances. Recently she has been focused on two bodies of work: one, feminist and decolonial imaginaries of future AI and techno-animism; and the other concerned with state necropolitics. Her work has been shown internationally, including VI Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Gaîté Lyrique, Paris; Anthology Film Archives, New York; NCCA Moscow; Korean Film Archive and Art Sonje Museum, Seoul; Sanatorium gallery, Istanbul; Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale; Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow; ar/ge kunst, Bolzano, and others. Her artist portfolio can be found here.
Before joining Winchester School of Art, she taught at Goldsmiths, London South Bank University and King’s College London. She was Balzan Post-Doctoral Fellow at New Sorbonne University Paris 3 in 2021-2022. She was co-editor of Cosmic Shift: Russian Contemporary Art Writing (London: ZED Books, 2017, TLS Book of the Year 2017). She co-curated media art festival IMPAKT 2018 ‘Algorithmic Superstructures’ and was a Digital Earth Fellow in 2020-2021.