Stephanie Moran

Stephanie Moran is an artist and researcher, studying for a 3D3-funded PhD with Plymouth University’s interdisciplinary digital research group, Transtechnology Research. Stephanie is also an Associate Partner at design and tech research agency Etic Lab. She is currently experimenting with the use of interspecies bots, algorithmically-generated scripts, nonlinear hypertext, and computational modeling from the animals’ perspective. Her avatar, @alien_ontology is an interspecies Twitter bot currently trying to be a bat.

Recent papers presented include KRAKEN?: AI, Octopuses and Alien Intelligence for Goldsmiths, Visual Cultures department; Alien Holobiontology for Digital Ecologies II: Fiction Machines conference at Bath Spa University; Visual Democratisation at EVA London 2019; Future Ghosts and Biosemiotic Chronotopes for Haunted Geologies symposium at the University of Plymouth 2019; and Coding the Digital Occult: the Binary [Techno]pagan and Vodun Ontologies of Cyberspace, for the Occulture conference, Berlin 2018.