Flavia Dzodan

Flavia Dzodan is Lector and head of the research group Algorithmic Cultures at the Rietveld Academie / Sandberg Instituut. Her interdisciplinary practice spans theory, installation, writing, and computational aesthetics, investigating the algorithmic afterlives of colonial taxonomies and the affective infrastructures of contemporary technologies. Working at the intersection of critical theory, infrastructural analysis, and speculative historiography, Dzodan develops recursive methodologies that resist optimization, coherence, and epistemic capture.

Her current research constellation, This Haunted House Where I Doomscroll, functions as a recursive epistemic architecture: a living archive of works that includes theoretical reliquaries, historiographic fragments, AI-generated chimeras, and video liturgies. Across this constellation, she theorizes algorithmic violence, predictive exhaustion, vital austerity, and affective logistics; engaging refusal, mourning, and hauntology not as themes but as methods of critique.

Dzodan is presently completing Affective Logistics: On the Algorithmic Capture and Routing of Emotion, a book-length investigation of how emotion becomes administrated material within computational infrastructures, from biometric surveillance and emotional UI to synthetic companionship and predictive finance. The work rejects solutionism and abstraction in favor of situated critique and forensic method as forms of resistance to optimization.

Through her imprint Transversal Media, she develops experimental publishing formats that enact recursive processes. At the Critical Studies department, she teaches across seminars, supporting students in developing theoretical practices that are methodologically inventive, affectively engaged, and critically recursive.

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