Rachel Falconer

Rachel Falconer is an independent digital art curator, academic, and founder of the experimental curatorial collective Mutable Prototype Syndicate. She currently holds the position of Head of Digital Arts Computing BSc and is a lecturer across undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Computational Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London. As an independent curator, researcher and writer she operates at the critical intersection of contemporary art practice, emergent technology ecosystems, feminist technoscience, and networked culture. Drawing on her experience in the film, advertising, and gaming industries to inform her systems-based practice, Falconer has conceived and delivered multi-scale interdisciplinary curatorial platforms and public programming, alternative exhibition models, residencies, and innovative public research platforms in an international context spanning a diversity of critical modes of engagement with technology. She is regularly invited to speak at public events and has participated in public programs at institutions including Transmediale, Berlin; Tate; Barbican Centre; ICA; V&A; Somerset House Studios; The Photographers Gallery; The Lumen Prize; Arebyte; Gazelli Art House; and Whitechapel Gallery, London; Rhizome; the New Museum, New York; and SONAR +D, Barcelona. Her writing and research has been published across a wide range of platforms including: Routledge, Sternberg Press, BOMB Magazine, Dazed, Frieze, The Guardian, the British Journal of Photography, and The White Review.