Zachary Furste
Zachary Furste is an artist, scholar, and permanent lecturer in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. He works on theories and histories of technical media, artistic research, and technology in the arts. His multimodal practice draws from archival techniques, digital forensics, software infrastructures, and the history of aesthetics.
In experimental websites like compressions.cc, postal.media, i-o.tv, thermostat.tv, iiil.li, and cybersyn.cc, he explores how the technical layers of the internet condition knowledge and social value.
Alongside his research and creative practice, Furste is a systems developer at the Digital Methods Initiative, where he works on the infrastructure behind the DMI’s suite of tools for internet research.
Furste holds a PhD from Harvard University. Previously, he has held fellowships at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of Southern California, and Carnegie Mellon University.