Zurich University of the Arts
Felix Stalder is Professor at the Zurich University of the Arts, teaching in the Department of Fine Arts’s “art:ifical studies” major. His work focuses on the intersection of cultural, political and technological dynamics, in particular on practices of commoning, datafication, AI, and transformation of nature and of subjectivity.
He not only works as an academic, but also as a cultural producer, as long-time moderator of <nettime>, a crucial nexus of critical net culture, first for the email list, now for its node in the fediverse. He is a member of the World Information Institute and the Technopolitics Working Group, both based in Vienna.
He is the author/editor of numerous books, among others Digital Solidarity (PML & Mute, 2014), Kultur der Digitalität / Digital Condition /字 状况 (Suhrkamp, 2016/Polity Press, 2018, School of Public Art, 2023), Aesthetics of the Commons (Diaphanes, 2021), Digital Unconscious (Autonomedia, 2021), From Commons to NFTS (Ljubliana 2022) and Contemporaneity in Embodied Data Practices (Sternberg Press, 2025).