Bogna Konior

Bogna Konior is a scholar and a writer whose work focuses on emerging technologies. She is currently Assistant Professor of Media Theory at NYU Shanghai, where she works at the Artificial Intelligence & Culture Research Center, and the Interactive Media Arts department.  She is the author of Dark Forest Theory of the Internet (Polity, 2025). With Benjamin Bratton and Anna Greenspan, she is the editor of Machine Decision is Not Final: China and the History and Future of Artificial Intelligence (Urbanomic, 2025).

In 2025, she is a mentor at the DATAS residency programme for artists working in the field of contemporary art, AI and sovereignty in the Central and Eastern European region. In 2024, she was a mentor in the Synthetic Minds Lab at the Medialab Matadero in Spain, and an affiliate researcher at the Antikythera think tank for speculative computation.

Her current book projects explore technological cultures, philosophies, histories, and futures through dialogue with intellectual traditions in China, as well as in Eastern Europe, particularly Poland and Ukraine. She is also developing a multimedia project that investigates the relationships between artificial intelligence, erotics, theology, and mysticism.

Her work on philosophy, history, and future of digital culture and technology has been presented internationally, including at the University of Cambridge Global AI Narratives Workshops, the Goethe Institute, e-flux, and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. She frequently collaborates with art institutions, including Ljubljana Biennale, Fundação de Serralves, Singapore Art Museum, ZKM Center for Art and Media @ Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Amsterdam Research Institute of the Arts and Sciences, and Maribor Computer Arts Festival.

Select Publications

• Machine Decision is Not Final: China, and the History and Future of AI, Urbanomic, 2025.
• The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet, Polity Press, 2025.
• War in the Age of Infinite Evidence: On AI-Generated War Photography, Seeing Against Seeing, ed. Alexey Yurenev, Nooscope Press, 2025, 255-269.
• Existential Technologies: The Machinery and Morality of Futurology & Stanisław Lem's Summa Technologiae, Antikythera: Journal for the Philosophy of Planetary Computation, Vol 1, 2025.
• Automatic Gnosis: Artificial Intelligence in Stanisław Lem's Summa Technologiae, Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines, ed. Kanta Dihal and Stephen Cave, Oxford University Press, 2022, 89-109.

Education

• PhD, Humanities
  Hong Kong Baptist University
• RMa, Media Studies
  University of Amsterdam
• BA, Film Studies
  Queen Mary, University of London