Galit Ariel

Galit Ariel is an award-winning researcher, author, and new media artist exploring the wild & imaginative side of bleeding-edge technologies. Galit is a creative technologist and PhD candidate at York University, where her ‘Biodigital Being(s)’ research-creation project explores how embodied technologies, culture, and politics forge new body fictions. She is the recipient of the OGS Scholarship, The Suzan Mann Dissertation Excellence Scholarship, part of the Feminist Digital Methods Research Cluster and a graduate research fellow in York’s Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts and Technology.

Galit Authored the book ‘Augmenting Alice: The Future of Identity, Experience and Reality’ (BIS Publishing); her critical writing appeared as articles and book chapters in Humanity-in-between and Beyond (Springer Nature Volume on Posthumanism), Atlantis: Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice, Global Perspectives (University of California Press), DAMN Magazine, Wired, and more.

Galit’s creative work spans across location-based Augmented Reality art, subversive animation, speculative interactions, and art curation. Her work was presented as public art installations, international new media and animation festivals, and academic conferences including the Dutch Design Week (EU), Opera Beyond (FI), Digital Arts Resource Center (CA), the Humanities Congress (CA), HASTAC (US), and the International Symposium of Electronic Arts (Australia).