Public Seminars 2025

I am a philosopher working on contemporary art and the question of technology. I am senior researcher at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study where I lead the “AI and Life Matters” research stream, and research associate at the Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation in Paris.

I studied theater at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle and philosophy at the University of Minnesota where I wrote my doctoral thesis under the direction of French philosopher Bernard Stiegler (1952-2020). I received international research fellowships from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota, the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation at the University of the Western Cape and the South African Research Chair Initiatives in Social Change at the University of Fort Hare. In 2021, I co-curated “Data Streams. Art, Algorithm and Artificial Intelligence” at the Glucksman Gallery in Ireland. I am the author of Performative Images. A Philosophy of Video Art Technology in France (Amsterdam University Press, 2023) and co-editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Gilbert Simondon (Edinburgh University Press, 2025).

I have been a guest speaker at Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, Centre Pompidou, Quai Branly, Institut Français d’Istanbul, Ankara, Izimir among many other venues. I spent the first fifteen years of my life in the backstage of the Mogador theatre in Paris where I learned to engage with live art, story telling, and performance.