Olga Goriunova is Professor of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of Ideal Subjects. Abstract People in Data and Culture (2025); Bleak Joys. Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility (with M. Fuller, 2019), and Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet (2012). She was the editor of Fun and Software, Exploring Pleasure, Pain and Paradox in Computing (2014), a co-curator of the software art platform Runme.org (2003) and is a founding co-editor of Computational Culture, A Journal of Software Studies.